Compact
Encyclopedia
Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact
or treaty
; in more specific cases it may refer to:
Within mathematics, compact may refer to:
Compact may also refer to:
Pact
A pact is a formal agreement.Pact, The Pact or PACT may also refer to:-PACT as an acronym:* Protein ACTivator of the interferon-induced protein kinase, a protein that activates protein kinase R...
or treaty
Treaty
A treaty is an express agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an agreement, protocol, covenant, convention or exchange of letters, among other terms...
; in more specific cases it may refer to:
- Interstate compactInterstate compactAn interstate compact is an agreement between two or more states of the United States of America. Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides that "no state shall enter into an agreement or compact with another state" without the consent of Congress...
- Compact governmentCompact governmentCompact governments or compacts were the conservative colonial cliquesthat ruled colonies, particularly in British North America prior to the granting of responsible government. They were usually Tory in orientation and were representative of the local elite. The best known one was the Family...
, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America - Compact of Free AssociationCompact of Free AssociationThe Compact of Free Association defines the relationship that three sovereign states—the Federated States of Micronesia , the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau—have entered into as associated states with the United States.Now sovereign nations, the three freely associated...
whereby the sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau have entered into as associated states with the United States.
Within mathematics, compact may refer to:
- Compact elementCompact elementIn the mathematical area of order theory, the compact or finite elements of a partially ordered set are those elements that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any non-empty directed set that does not already contain members above the compact element....
, those elements of a partially ordered set that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any directed set that does not already contain them - Compact operatorCompact operatorIn functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a compact operator is a linear operator L from a Banach space X to another Banach space Y, such that the image under L of any bounded subset of X is a relatively compact subset of Y...
, a linear operator that takes bounded subsets to relatively compact subsets, in functional analysis - Compact spaceCompact spaceIn mathematics, specifically general topology and metric topology, a compact space is an abstract mathematical space whose topology has the compactness property, which has many important implications not valid in general spaces...
, a topological space such that every open cover has a finite subcover - Quasi-compact morphism, a morphism of schemes for which the inverse image of any quasi-compact open set is again quasi-compact
Compact may also refer to:
- Compact carCompact carA compact car , or small family car , is a classification of cars which are larger than a supermini but smaller than or equal to a mid-size car...
, a classification of automobile size - Compact (cosmetics)Compact (cosmetics)A compact is cosmetic product. It is usually contained in a small, round case, with two or all of the following: a mirror, pressed powder, and a powder puff. The term is an abbreviation for "compact powder"...
, a case containing one or more of the following, a mirror, pressed powder, and/or a powder puff - Compact (newspaper)Compact (newspaper)A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially one in the United Kingdom. The term is used also for this size came into use in its current use when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London's commuters, designed to be easier...
, a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format - Compact BooksCompact BooksCompact Books was an imprint of Roberts and Vinter , publishers of New Worlds magazine. They published detective novels by authors Hank Janson and Hilary Brand and a science fiction list edited by Michael Moorcock.-History:...
, a UK imprint - Compact SoftwareCompact SoftwareCompact Software was the first successful microwave computer-aided design company.-History:The company was founded in 1973 by Les Besser to commercialize his eponymous program COMPACT , released when he was at Farinon Electric Company.COMPACT was Besser's second-generation...
, a technology company founded in 1973 - Compact (TV series)Compact (TV series)Compact is a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together went on to devise Crossroads....
, a 1960s British soap opera - Compact starCompact starIn astronomy, the term compact star is used to refer collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, other exotic dense stars, and black holes. These objects are all small for their mass...
, also called a compact object, a degenerate star like a neutron star - Compact (band), Romanian rock band, founded 1977 in Cluj-Napoca