compactify
- Verb. (humorous, intransitive) To become compact or more compact.
- Verb. (humorous, transitive) To render (a thing) compact or more compact.
- Verb. (mathematics, transitive) To enlarge (a topological space) in order to render it compact.
- Verb. (physics, transitive) To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension).
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