compaction meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

compaction

noun

AU, CA, US, UK /kəmˈpækʃən/ · NZ /kəmˈpɛkʃən/

Etymology From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.

The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 480:

Derived terms: autocompaction, compactional, context compaction, decompaction, hypercompaction, noncompaction, precompaction, recompaction, supercompaction, vibrocompaction