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precompact

precompact verb: to compact partially in preparation for full compaction or extrusion.

Verb

precompact (third-person singular simple present precompacts, present participle precompacting, simple past and past participle precompacted)

  1. To compact partially in preparation for full compaction or extrusion.
    • The mixture finally moves to the compaction chamber where the auger motion precompacts the mixture to remove as much void space as possible prior to extrusion through a shaped die.1994, T. S. Srivatsan, Karthik Ramani, Mamidala Ramulu, Processing, Design, and Performance of Composite Materials

Adjective

precompact (not comparable)

  1. Forming a relatively compact subspace; Having a closure that is compact.
  2. Totally bounded; Having a cover that consists of finitely many finite subsets.

Forms of precompact

third-person singular presentprecompacts
present participleprecompacting
past participleprecompacted
pastprecompacted

Origin of precompact

From pre- + compact.

Words formed from precompact

Questions about precompact

What does precompact mean?
Precompact means to compact partially in preparation for full compaction or extrusion.
What part of speech is precompact?
Precompact can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of precompact?
The past tense of precompact is precompacted.

Words near precompact in the dictionary

  1. precommittal
  2. precommitted
  3. precommitting
  4. precommunion
  5. precommunist
  6. precompact
  7. precompacted
  8. precompacting
  9. precompaction
  10. precompactions
  11. precompactness

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