compactness

Example Sentences

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Yet often it is the compactness of Shakespeare’s writing that troubles translators.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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

Blijlevens and her colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology assessed hundreds of salts on availability, safety, and compactness.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

Intervening defendants in the lawsuit argued that the new district should focus more on compactness and shared interests and less on race.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

All these languages, “big” and “little,” fall into four language families, which differ greatly in the compactness of their distributions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond