An agreement or contract.
Used in a Sentence
compacts
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for compacts.
Editorial note
Digital compacts, and before them film-based compacts, have been more than adequate for the vast majority of those kinds of photos for a very long time.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An agreement or contract.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of compacts gathered in one view.
A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for compacts.
noun
An agreement or contract.
noun
A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
noun
An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
noun
A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
Example sentences
Digital compacts, and before them film-based compacts, have been more than adequate for the vast majority of those kinds of photos for a very long time.
I think the game is over for compacts, even if all you can afford is a $200-$300 subsidized phone, and not a high-end one.
Without social compacts and agreements, and caring for neighbours none of these men would have acted together.
A glacier accumulates mass, principally from snowfall in winter, which compacts into ice and flows downhill.
A score of 50 gives a comment the force of many voices, but it compacts those voices into two efficient bytes.
Judicial precedence applies to amendments, contracts, compacts, stare decisis and other forms of precedent.
If this is true it's likely that quiet gasoline compacts with good acceleration would also cause a higher number of accidents involving pedestrians.
It has a stop the world GC which compacts data and removes objects not referenced by any current branch, tag or similar object.
Cloudant (based on CouchDB) automatically triggers map-reduce and auto-compacts your database for you.
I had seen it done on compacts but didn't realize anyone had done in on interchangeable cameras.
Modern gasoline compacts with small engines are very quiet at city speeds.
I should point out that not all state compacts with tribes that enable casinos allow for direct payments to tribal members.
Quote examples
On an 8.98 x 7.04 mm sensor, about the size of the largest compact camera sensors today (2/3" size, used in a few Fujifilm compacts, is 8.80 x 6.60 mm).
The example ErsatzVerkehr mentioned in m43 and is done in some compacts is more "we have a lens+sensor+software combo that spits out a correct photo and you never see uncorrected results".
[1] Rhetoric aside, the tradition of Anglo-American law is that "rights" only bind the actions of the government to the extent that they are recognized by the social compacts that bind the nation together.
Basically, what I'd really love to have is a "mother of all maths textbook" -- a thick and heavy tome that compacts information from all the other thick and expensive books (which I'm never going to read) and different fields of mathematics.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use compacts in a sentence?
Digital compacts, and before them film-based compacts, have been more than adequate for the vast majority of those kinds of photos for a very long time.
What does compacts mean?
An agreement or contract.
What part of speech is compacts?
compacts is commonly used as noun.