▸ 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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