compactify

Meaning

  1. (humorous, intransitive) To become compact or more compact.
  2. (humorous, transitive) To render (a thing) compact or more compact.
  3. (transitive) To enlarge (a topological space) in order to render it compact.
  4. (transitive) To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension).

Translations

Etymology

From compact + -ify.

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