compacting

Verb (1)

compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)

1. (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
   • In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy, page 94

Verb (2)

compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)

1. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
   • You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.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)

   Synonyms:

   compress

2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
   • The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 4:16

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