Definition for Compaction:

• The act of making compact; the state of being compact.

Synonyms for Compaction:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • crunch,
  • crush,
  • compaction.
  •compaction (noun)
  • concretion,
  • densification.
  •contraction (noun)
  • shrinkage,
  • contraction,
  • condensation,
  • deflation,
  • abbreviation,
  • abridgement.
  •decrease (noun)
  • decrement,
  • curtailment,
  • deduction,
  • decrease,
  • truncation,
  • Diminishment,
  • erosion,
  • depletion,
  • reduction.
  •shortness (noun)
  • conciseness,
  • shortness,
  • lowness,
  • brevity,
  • abridgment,
  • runtiness,
  • Stumpiness,
  • succinctness,
  • puniness,
  • smallness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • compressing,
  • compression,
  • concentration.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abruptness,
  • absorption,
  • adhere,
  • adhesion,
  • adhesiveness,
  • adjunction,
  • adjure,
  • adjust,
  • affiliation,
  • age of fishes,
  • age of man,
  • agglutinating activity,
  • aggregate,
  • agitate,
  • air pressure,
  • alignment,
  • alinement,
  • arrange,
  • articulation,
  • assiduity,
  • assiduousness,
  • astringence,
  • atmospheric pressure,
  • attachment,
  • backpack,
  • band,
  • battalion,
  • beat,
  • beat out,
  • bejewel,
  • bend,
  • bent,
  • beseech,
  • bid,
  • blackjack,
  • blackmail,
  • block,
  • bond,
  • bonyness,
  • bosom,
  • bouldered,
  • bouldery,
  • bray,
  • break,
  • break down,
  • briefness,
  • brusqueness,
  • bumpy,
  • bunch,
  • bundle,
  • burst,
  • camp,
  • campaign,
  • capsule,
  • careen,
  • carry,
  • catching,
  • cave in,
  • cavity,
  • cervix uteri,
  • chock up,
  • choking,
  • circle,
  • cleave,
  • clinch,
  • clingstone,
  • clique,
  • close,
  • close down,
  • close up,
  • closet,
  • coarctation,
  • coerce,
  • cohere,
  • coherency,
  • cohesion,
  • cohesiveness,
  • coif,
  • coiffe,
  • coiffure,
  • colliery,
  • colligation,
  • comminute,
  • compact,
  • compactness,
  • compress,
  • concision,
  • condensate,
  • congeal,
  • congeries,
  • conglobation,
  • congregation,
  • conjugation,
  • conjunction,
  • conjure,
  • connection,
  • connexion,
  • conspiracy,
  • constrict,
  • constrictive,
  • contract,
  • correct,
  • corroding,
  • corrosion,
  • coterie,
  • countersink,
  • crackle,
  • cram,
  • cranch,
  • crash,
  • craunch,
  • crease,
  • credit crunch,
  • crew,
  • crimp,
  • crock up,
  • crowd together,
  • crumble,
  • crumple,
  • crusade,
  • curtness,
  • decline,
  • deductive reasoning,
  • define,
  • denseness,
  • density,
  • determine,
  • determined,
  • dethronement,
  • dictated,
  • dig,
  • diminish,
  • discount,
  • dispiritedness,
  • dixie,
  • dixieland,
  • donkeywork,
  • downheartedness,
  • downsizing,
  • dress,
  • drudge,
  • drudgery,
  • dweeb,
  • eating away,
  • economic consumption,
  • electronic jamming,
  • embezzlement,
  • embrace,
  • endocarp,
  • engrossment,
  • entailment,
  • entreat,
  • eroding,
  • exercise set,
  • exhort,
  • expenditure,
  • extort,
  • face pack,
  • factory,
  • fading,
  • fag,
  • faithful,
  • fall,
  • fall in,
  • federation,
  • fight,
  • fit,
  • fix,
  • fixed,
  • flexure,
  • flock,
  • flop,
  • fold up,
  • folding,
  • force,
  • force per unit area,
  • fossa,
  • founder,
  • four,
  • foursome,
  • fourth,
  • fructify,
  • fusion,
  • gang,
  • gauntness,
  • gear up,
  • gem,
  • gemstone,
  • give,
  • give way,
  • go down,
  • go under,
  • gold-bearing,
  • gouge,
  • grate,
  • grinder,
  • gruffness,
  • hale,
  • hang,
  • hardened,
  • hardening,
  • herd,
  • hug,
  • immersion,
  • impede,
  • imperativeness,
  • implication,
  • infernal region,
  • inferno,
  • infinitesimal calculus,
  • ingestion,
  • ingroup,
  • inner circle,
  • insistence,
  • insistency,
  • intake,
  • integration,
  • iron,
  • iron out,
  • iv,
  • jamming,
  • jampack,
  • jell,
  • join,
  • jolting,
  • jolty,
  • jumpy,
  • juncture,
  • kettle of fish,
  • knit,
  • knitwork,
  • labor,
  • labour,
  • lapidate,
  • large number,
  • lay,
  • lay out,
  • lessen,
  • limit,
  • liquidity crisis,
  • littleness,
  • load down,
  • localise,
  • localize,
  • located,
  • lot,
  • low status,
  • low-spiritedness,
  • maceration,
  • make out,
  • manufactory,
  • manufacturing plant,
  • mark,
  • mash,
  • match,
  • mechanical press,
  • mess,
  • military press,
  • mill about,
  • mill around,
  • minify,
  • misapplication,
  • misappropriation,
  • mob,
  • moil,
  • muddle,
  • multitude,
  • munch,
  • muscular contraction,
  • nerd,
  • nether region,
  • nip,
  • obstruct,
  • obturate,
  • occlude,
  • oppose,
  • oppress,
  • orchestra pit,
  • peculation,
  • pen up,
  • perdition,
  • pettiness,
  • phthisis,
  • pickle,
  • pile,
  • pinch,
  • pitfall,
  • pithiness,
  • place,
  • placed,
  • plant,
  • play off,
  • plica,
  • plication,
  • plodding,
  • plurality,
  • pock,
  • pose,
  • position,
  • powder,
  • power play,
  • precious stone,
  • prepare,
  • press out,
  • pressing,
  • pressure level,
  • pressure sensation,
  • price reduction,
  • primed,
  • printing press,
  • prostration,
  • public press,
  • pulmonary tuberculosis,
  • push,
  • put,
  • quadruplet,
  • quarry,
  • quartet,
  • quatern,
  • quaternary period,
  • quaternate,
  • quaternion,
  • quaternity,
  • rack,
  • ram,
  • readiness,
  • ready,
  • reducing,
  • remission,
  • remittal,
  • retrenchment,
  • rig,
  • rigid,
  • ring,
  • rock 'n' roll,
  • rock candy,
  • rock music,
  • rough,
  • scar,
  • scranch,
  • scraunch,
  • set up,
  • seth,
  • settling,
  • shake,
  • sheep pen,
  • sheepcote,
  • sheepfold,
  • shell,
  • shoplifting,
  • shove,
  • shut down,
  • sic,
  • simplification,
  • situated,
  • slightness,
  • smash,
  • solidifying,
  • south,
  • specify,
  • squash,
  • squeeze play,
  • squelch,
  • stage set,
  • stenosis,
  • stick,
  • stone pit,
  • stony,
  • strangling,
  • stuff,
  • stuntedness,
  • stypsis,
  • subsiding,
  • subtraction,
  • suppress,
  • suppression,
  • sway,
  • swot,
  • synthesis,
  • take,
  • tamp,
  • tamp down,
  • tapered,
  • tapering,
  • tartar,
  • tax deduction,
  • tetrad,
  • throng,
  • throttling,
  • thrust,
  • tie,
  • tightness,
  • tilt,
  • toil,
  • tophus,
  • transience,
  • travail,
  • triviality,
  • trounce,
  • tumble,
  • turn up,
  • tweet,
  • twinge,
  • twitch,
  • typeset,
  • union,
  • uptake,
  • urge,
  • urge on,
  • usance,
  • use,
  • use of goods and services,
  • using up,
  • uterine cervix,
  • vanquish,
  • wad,
  • wardrobe,
  • wasting,
  • wasting away,
  • wasting disease,
  • wearing,
  • wearing away,
  • wedge,
  • weigh,
  • weightlift,
  • welsh,
  • welshman,
  • white plague,
  • withering,
  • wonk,
  • wring,
  • muscle contraction,
  • rock and roll,
  • chokepoint,
  • tax write-off,
  • curing,
  • 4,
  • break up,
  • weight-lift,
  • 4th,
  • dejectedness,
  • crack,
  • deposit,
  • hole,
  • joint,
  • laid,
  • milling machinery,
  • neck opening,
  • crack up,
  • drop-off,
  • tie-up,
  • rock-and-roll,
  • rock'n'roll,
  • step-down,
  • harlan f. stone,
  • harlan fisk stone.

Paraphrases for Compaction:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    compression.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Compacting, scavenging, compact, settlement, packing, settling.

Antonyms for Compaction:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    dispersion, decompression, dissipation, dilation, scattering, swelling, expansion, distension, inflation.

Hypernym for Compaction:

• n.

  • act
    grind, pulverization, mill, pulverisation.

Hyponym for Compaction:

• n.

  • act
    compressing, compression.
  • event
    concentration.