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An agreement or contract.

A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.

A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

To make more dense; to compress.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.

Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

Example: a compact laptop computer

(of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.

Example: A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.

(of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.