Compaction

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compaction \Com*pac"tion\, n. [L. compactio.]
     The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.
     [Obs.] --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  compaction
       n 1: an increase in the density of something [syn: {compression},
             {concretion}, {densification}]
       2: the act of crushing [syn: {crush}, {crunch}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  compaction
       
          {compression}