compact
The compactness of the town means you can walk around it easily.
We are amazed at the device's compactness - about the size of a paperback book.
The Beetle's compactness means that there is little space between the occupant and the windshield.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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baby
bijou
bite-sized
claustrophobically
compactly
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midget
missy
modest
modestly
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parsimonious
sampler
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skimpily
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Examples of compactness

compactness
We have chosen to use dilation and compactness here, because we will use the same technique again when bounding smoothed projections.
By mimicking the compactness definition for domain elements, the notion of a finite object in a category is introduced.
A formal definition and a thorough discussion of the concepts of compactness and quasi compactness of operators is out of the question here.
Finally, we get the existence of the required solution using compactness arguments.
The compactness and connectivity conditions are thus crucial for a reliable shape reconstruction using bead modelling techniques.
Then, he used a compactness argument to show that, when tends to zero, the functions u converge to a limit that satisfies the entropy inequality.
Since an infinite graph is acyclic as soon as its finite subgraphs are, this statement easily extends to infinite graphs by compactness.
This ensures a reasonable compactness and long lifetime of the setups.
The advantages of using solid media are their compactness, harmlessness, and easy handling.
Their compactness follows from the compactness of the building components.
First, compactness and connectivity of art forms are computed using image processing.
Before we turn to compactness issues, we discuss an important special case.
To treat the second integral on the right-hand side, we have to make use of the theorem of compensated compactness.
Finally, we pass to the limit in the dimension, using rather delicate compactness arguments.
The house is also evaluated on the compactness of the overall shape.
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