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Webster 1913 Edition

Compaction

Com-pac′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

compactio

.]

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.

[Obs.]

Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition

Compaction

COMPACTION

,

Noun.

The act of making compact; or the state of being compact.

Definition 2024

compaction

compaction

English

Noun

compaction ‎(plural compactions)

The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
  At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.