compact
/kəmˈpækt/ adjective C2- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space. · a compact laptop computer
- Brief and pithy; not verbose. · a compact discourse
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
Comparative compacter · Superlative compactest
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“Because in 1807 I dreamed of the very plan Napoleon tried to realize in 1811; because, like Machiavelli, I desired to alter the political face of Italy, and instead of allowing it to be split up into a quantity of petty principalities, each held by some weak or tyrannical ruler, I sought to form one large, compact, and powerful empire; and, lastly, because I fancied I had found my Cæsar Borgia in a crowned simpleton, who feigned to enter into my views only to betray me.
Dantès closely and eagerly examined it; he found it firm, solid, and compact enough to bear any weight.
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