Compactness

2 definitions found

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

  Compactness \Com*pact"ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts;
     density.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  compactness
       n 1: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: {concentration},
             {density}, {denseness}] [ant: {distribution}]
       2: the consistency of a compact solid