Usually means: Reducing volume through pressure, organization.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. compacting: Merriam-Webster
  2. compacting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. compacting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Compacting, compacting: Wordnik
  5. compacting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. compacting: Wiktionary
  7. Compacting, compacting: Dictionary.com
  8. compacting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Compacting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Compacting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. compacting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. compacting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. compacting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compacting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compacting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compacting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See compact as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compact)

noun:  An agreement or contract.
verb:  (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
adjective:  (archaic) Agreed, contracted.
adjective:  Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
adjective:  Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
adjective:  (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
adjective:  (topology, not comparable) Of a topological space:
adjective:  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.
adjective:  Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
adjective:  (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
adjective:  (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
noun:  A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
noun:  An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
noun:  A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
verb:  (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
verb:  To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
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