compact
adjective
well-compacted
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a word derived from
compact.
Example Sentences
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When a glacier eventually melts, the lodgement till is exposed as a sheet of well-compacted sediment ranging from several centimetres to many metres in thickness.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Vetch Vetch needs a fine well-compacted seed-bed, but it is often sowed with good results on stubble lands and between cotton and corn rows, where it is covered by a cultivator or a weeder.
From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett
It is a well-compacted and forcible account of Essex's misdoings, on which of course the colour of deliberate and dangerous treason was placed.
From Bacon by John Morley
It is comprehensive, methodical, well-compacted, and, from its own point of view, exhaustive.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Polynesia, particularly New Zealand and Hawaii, is the special home of taboo—the only region in which it is known to have taken the form of a well-compacted, all-embracing system.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
