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
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
Unlike the long-limbed, long bodied animals of the south that are cooled by dispensing heat on extended surfaces, all live things in the Arctic tend toward compactness, to conserve heat.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
