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compactions

compactions is the plural of compaction.

Meaning of compaction

Noun

compaction (countable and uncountable, plural compactions)

  1. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
    • At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 480

Questions about compactions

What is compactions the plural of?
Compactions is the plural of compaction.

Words near compactions in the dictionary

  1. compactifying
  2. compactin
  3. compacting
  4. compaction
  5. compactional
  6. compactions
  7. compactituberculate
  8. compactivities
  9. compactivity
  10. compactization
  11. compactizations

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