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compactness|kəmˈpæktnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
a. Compact quality or condition; closeness of component elements or parts, density, solidity.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. ii. 57 By compactnesse or gravity it may acquire the lowest place, and become the center of the universe. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 51 The Degree of the compactness of Ice. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxviii. (1859) II. 352 Giving order and compactness to the materials of our knowledge. 1839Thirlwall Greece VIII. 413 The phalanx..could no longer preserve..the compactness of its mass.
b. Of style: Terseness, pithiness.
1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 656 The compactness of his aphoristic sentences. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 349 Epigrammatic compactness of phrase.
c. Of sounds: the fact or quality of being compact (cf. compact ppl. a.1 B. 2 c).
1930E. R. Moul in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XLII. 548 Observe and describe that aspect of the experience which you have called..compactness, depth,..and the like. 1949Jakobson & Lotz in R. Jakobson Sel. Writings (1962) 427 The saturated vowels are characterized by a compactness of their format-spectrum. 1951R. Jakobson Ibid. 440 The dichotomy of acuteness and gravity and that of diffuseness and saturation (to avoid the ambiguity of this term, I now prefer compactness, suggested by S. S. Stevens). 1952― et al. Prelim. Speech Analysis 27 In the consonants, compactness is displayed by a predominant formant region, centrally located. |