compactness

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Those principles include compactness, contiguity and the preservation of political subdivisions, including cities and counties, and “communities of interest” that have geography, culture or an economic sector in common.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Technologies like rooftop photovoltaics, vehicle-to-grid systems and AI-optimized resource flows do not depend on compactness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Blijlevens and her colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology assessed hundreds of salts on availability, safety, and compactness.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

“You have to calculate the compactness of districts. You have to estimate voting patterns for minority voters and white voters.”

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

England had a sense of compactness, like a garden, a lovely garden, but this country was without borders.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara