compactness

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Yet often it is the compactness of Shakespeare’s writing that troubles translators.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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

Modeling based on the skewed-high axis-ratio distribution shows that the ratio of the shortest to the longest of their three axes is, on average, half and increases with spatial compactness.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Intervening defendants in the lawsuit argued that the new district should focus more on compactness and shared interests and less on race.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

All these languages, “big” and “little,” fall into four language families, which differ greatly in the compactness of their distributions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond