closely or firmly packed or joined together (see soil compaction).
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
compaction (noun)the act or process of the state of being - compacting compacted
compaction (Wikipedia)
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Compaction may refer to:
- Soil compaction, for mechanically induced compaction near the ground surface
- Compaction (geology), part of the process of lithification involving mechanical dewatering of a sediment by progressive loading under several km of geomaterial
- Waste compaction, related to garbage
- Cold compaction, powder compaction at low temperatures
- Data compaction, related to computers
- Compactor, a device that performs compaction
- Compaction, a cellular differentiation process during early embryogenesis, which occurs during the cleavage stage of human embryogenesis