compactify
English
Etymology
compact + -ify
Verb
compactify (third-person singular simple present compactifies, present participle compactifying, simple past and past participle compactified)
- (humorous, intransitive) To become compact or more compact.
- (humorous, transitive) To render (a thing) compact or more compact.
- (mathematics, transitive) To enlarge (a topological space) in order to render it compact.
- (physics, transitive) To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension).
Derived terms
- paracompactifying
See also
