Hypertext Webster Gateway: "compaction"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Compaction \Com*pac"tion\, n. [L. compactio.]
The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.
[Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
compaction
n 1: an increase in the density of something [syn: {compression},
{concretion}, {densification}]
2: the act of crushing [syn: {crush}, {crunch}]
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