English
Etymology
From compact + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
compactness (countable and uncountable, plural compactnesses)
- The state of being compact.
1959 June, “Southern Newsreel: Resignalling at Barnes and Brixton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:The Barnes box is a Westinghouse installation and the control console is very similar in style and compactness to the same firm's equipment at St. Pancras.
Derived terms
Translations
state of being compact
- Arabic: اِكْتِنَاز m (iktināz), اِلْتِزَاز m (iltizāz), رَصَافَة f (raṣāfa), تَرَاصّ m (tarāṣṣ), تَضَامّ m (taḍāmm), تَدَمُّج m (tadammuj)
- Belarusian: кампа́ктнасць f (kampáktnascʹ)
- Czech: kompaktnost f, ucelenost f, pevnost (cs) f, semknutost f, masivnost f, hutnost f
- Danish: kompakthed c
- Dutch: compactheid (nl) f
- French: compacité (fr) f
- German: Kompaktheit f
- Occitan: compacitat f
- Punjabi: ਸੁੰਗੜਤਾ (suṅgṛatā)
- Russian: компа́ктность (ru) f (kompáktnostʹ)
- Spanish: compacidad (es) f
- Swedish: kompakthet (sv) c
- Ukrainian: компа́ктність (uk) f (kompáktnistʹ)
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