compactとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Latin compactum (“agreement”).

名詞

compact (複数形 compacts)

1. An agreement or contract.

   Synonyms: agreement, contract, pact, treaty

   • 2021 April 29, Peter Baker, “Biden Seeks Shift in How the Nation Serves Its People”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners.

   • 2022 January 25, David Yaffe-Bellany, “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     After taking over this month as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan coalition of city mayors, he urged members to sign a “crypto compact” calling on the federal government to eschew overly aggressive regulation of the industry.

派生語

• interstate compact
• social compact

動詞

compact (三人称単数 現在形 compacts, 現在分詞 compacting, 過去形および過去分詞形 compacted)

1. (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
   • 2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy, page 94:

     In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.

語源 2

From Middle French [Term?], from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).

形容詞

compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)

1. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.

   Synonyms: concentrated, crowded, dense, serried; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Hyponym: ultracompact

   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies

2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   a compact laptop computer

3. (topology, not comparable, of a set in a topological space) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover. In a Euclidean space this is equivalent to a Closed and bounded set.

   A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.

4. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

   a compact discourse

5. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 81:

     Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:

   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Junior), The Compleat Gentleman:

     a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

6. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.

派生語

名詞

compact (複数形 compacts)

1. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.
2. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
   • 2012, BBC News, Dundee Courier makes move to compact‎^[3]:

     The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.

動詞

compact (三人称単数 現在形 compacts, 現在分詞 compacting, 過去形および過去分詞形 compacted)

1. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
   • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎^[4]:

     You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 4:16:

     The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

同意語

• (make more dense): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

参考

• Compact (cosmetics) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• accompt