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compact

adjective as in condensed

verb as in make condensed

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This could dramatically reduce the amount of tritium needed to start up and maintain fusion reactions, leading to more compact and affordable fusion systems.

"The soil is compacted, there's asphalt over them and when it rains, the water runs off into the gutters instead of into the soil."

While total annual rain and snowfall levels may not change dramatically, long periods between intense precipitation events allow the soil to dry and become more compact.

But the surrounding galleries in this compact show take other directions, into painting, drawing and sculpture, before coming around to performance again.

That compact between citizens and government has been broken for a long time, but now, more than ever in recent decades, it is shattered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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