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
"The compactness of the thin-film lithium niobate platform allows tight integration of several components on the same small chip and helped shaping up the concept of four-phase electrooptic modulators."
From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023
In its clever compactness, “Y/N” resists the junkiness of the internet where they reside, the fanfics and the livestreams and endless comments.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 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
