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compact
Noun
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A compact is an agreement or contract.
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A compact is a small container with a folding mirror that contains powder and is used by women.
compact
Adjective
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If something is compact, it is packed into a tight space.
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If something is compact, all of the needed features of something fits in a small space.
compact
Verb
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If something is compacted, it is made smaller; it is compressed.
disk
Noun
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A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular.
A coin is a disk of metal.
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Something that looks like a disk.
Venus' disk blocked light from the Sun.
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A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
Turn the disk over after it has finished.
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A floppy disk.
He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
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A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up the information on her computer.
ROM
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noun
(= read-only memory)
(computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed