compaction

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=pac=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

compaction, n. [L. compactio.].

 The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

compaction

Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).