compactness
nounEtymology From compact + -ness.
1
The state of being compact.
- The Barnes box is a Westinghouse installation and the control console is very similar in style and compactness to the same firm's equipment at St. Pancras.1959 June, “Southern Newsreel: Resignalling at Barnes and Brixton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:
- Derived terms
- noncompactness, pseudocompactness, sequential compactness