Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or

treaty A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal perso ...

; in more specific cases it may refer to: * Interstate compact * Blood compact, an ancient ritual of the Philippines *

Compact government Compact governments or compacts were the conservative colonial cliques that ruled colonies, particularly in British North America prior to the granting of responsible government. They were usually Tory in orientation and representative of the local ...

, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America * Compact of Free Association 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. *

Mayflower Compact The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the men aboard the ''Mayflower,'' consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, an ...

, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony * United Nations Global Compact * Global Compact for Migration, a UN non-binding intergovernmental agreement

Mathematics

* 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 operator, a linear operator that takes bounded subsets to relatively compact subsets, in functional analysis *

Compact space In mathematics, specifically general topology, compactness is a property that seeks to generalize the notion of a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space by making precise the idea of a space having no "punctures" or "missing endpoints", i ...

, 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

Publications

* ''Compact'' (American magazine), a U.S.-based online magazine * ''Compact'' (German magazine), a far-right German magazine * ''Compact'' (newspaper), a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format

Other uses

* Compact car, a classification of automobile size ** Compact sport utility vehicle * Compact (cosmetics), a case containing one or more of the following, a mirror, pressed powder, and/or a powder puff *

Compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in Octo ...

* Compact Software, a technology company founded in 1973 * ''Compact'' (TV series), a 1960s British soap opera * Compact star, also called a compact object, a degenerate star like a neutron star

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