compact
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The overheads are steep, particularly for an industry that has long enjoyed high margins supported by relatively compact stores.
Perhaps best of all, the book’s format—compact enough to fit in a purse or backpack—allows a reader to pick it up, read and stop, and restart at will.
The car — first introduced in 1964 at the New York World’s Fair as a sporty, compact coup with just a little bit of an edge — is given a hero’s treatment.
From Los Angeles Times
They discovered that the TCR behaves like a jack-in-the-box, staying compact until it encounters an antigen or another suspicious particle, at which point it rapidly opens.
From Science Daily
The approach mirrors Ramanujan's own method of starting from a compact mathematical expression and rapidly arriving at precise results for pi.
From Science Daily
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