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Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a
pact A pact, from Latin ''pactum'' ("something agreed upon"), is a formal agreement between two or more parties. In international relations, pacts are usually between two or more sovereign states. In domestic politics, pacts are usually between two or ...
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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 pe ...
; in more specific cases it may refer to: *
Interstate compact The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. Th ...
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Blood compact Blood compact (Spanish: ''Pacto de sangre''; Filipino: ''Sanduguan'') was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate an agreement. The contracting parties would cut their hands and pour their blood ...
, an ancient ritual of the Philippines * Compact government, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America *
Compact of Free Association The Compact of Free Association (COFA) is an international agreement establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia (F ...
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 first governing document of Plymouth Colony *
United Nations Global Compact The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact to encourage businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The UN Global Compact is a princi ...
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Global Compact for Migration The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that describes itself as covering "all dimensions of international migration in ...
, a UN non-binding intergovernmental agreement


Mathematics

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Compact element {{Unreferenced, date=December 2008 In the mathematical area of order theory, the compact elements 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 ...
, 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 In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a compact operator is a linear operator T: X \to Y, where X,Y are normed vector spaces, with the property that T maps bounded subsets of X to relatively compact subsets of Y (subsets with compact c ...
, 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", ...
, a topological space such that every open cover has a finite subcover *
Quasi-compact morphism In algebraic geometry, a morphism f: X \to Y between schemes is said to be quasi-compact if ''Y'' can be covered by open affine subschemes V_i such that the pre-images f^(V_i) are quasi-compact (as topological space). If ''f'' is quasi-compact, then ...
, 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

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Compact car Compact car is a vehicle size class — predominantly used in North America — that sits between subcompact cars and mid-size cars. "Small family car" is a British term and a part of the C-segment in the European car classification. However, ...
, a classification of automobile size **
Compact sport utility vehicle A compact sport utility vehicle or compact SUV is a class of small sport utility vehicles that is larger than mini SUVs, but smaller than mid-size SUVs. However, there is no official definition of the size or dimensions for this market segment ...
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Compact (cosmetics) A compact (also powder box, powder case and flapjack) is a cosmetic product. It is usually a small round metal case and contains two or more of the following: a mirror, pressed or loose face powder with a gauze sifter and a powder puff. Histor ...
, 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 Oc ...
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Compact Software Compact Software was the first commercially successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company. The company was founded in 1973 by Les Besser to commercialize his eponymous program COMPACT (Computerized Optimization of Microwave Passive and ...
, a technology company founded in 1973 * ''Compact'' (TV series), a 1960s British soap opera *
Compact star In astronomy, the term compact star (or compact object) refers collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. It would grow to include exotic stars if such hypothetical, dense bodies are confirmed to exist. All compact objects ha ...
, also called a compact object, a degenerate star like a neutron star


See also

* Campact, a German nongovernmental organization * Kompakt, a German record label {{disambiguation