Dictionary Definition
compaction
Noun
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted
Extensive Definition
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