Compact as a general noun can refer to:

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• a diplomatic contract or covenant among parties, sometimes known as a pact, treaty, or an interstate compact;
• a British term for a newspaper format;

In mathematics, it can refer to various concepts: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Logo en:Wiktionary Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... The United Nations, with its headquarters in New York City, is the largest international diplomatic organization. ... Jump to: navigation, search A contract is any legally-enforceable promise or set of promises made between parties. ... Covenant, in its most general sense, is a word for a solemn contract or similar undertaking. ... A pact is a formal agreement, usually between two or more nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search A treaty is a binding agreement under international law concluded by subjects of international law, namely states and international organizations. ... Jump to: navigation, search An interstate compact is an agreement between two or more U.S. states. ... A compact newspaper is a British term referring to a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ...

• Mostly commonly the term in topology deals with compact spaces and compact sets;
• In propositional and predicate calculus it can refer to the compactness theorem; and
• In order theory and domain theory, the not entirely unrelated notion of a compact element is typically used.

Compact is also the name of a 1960s British soap opera. Topology (Greek topos, place and logos, study) is a branch of mathematics concerned with the study of topological spaces. ... In mathematics, a compact space is a space that resembles a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space Rn in that it is small in a certain sense and contains all its limit points. The modern general definition calls a topological space compact if every open cover of it has... In mathematics, a compact set is a set of points in a topological space such that every one of its (possibly infinite) open covers has a finite subcover. ... Jump to: navigation, search In mathematical logic the propositional calculus or sentential calculus is a formal deduction system whose atomic formulas are propositional variables. ... First-order predicate calculus or first-order logic (FOL) permits the formulation of quantified statements such as there exists an x such that. ... The compactness theorem is a basic fact in symbolic logic and model theory and asserts that a set (possibly infinite) of first-order sentences is satisfiable, i. ... Order theory is a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of binary relations that capture the intuitive notion of a mathematical ordering. ... Domain theory is a branch of mathematics that studies special kinds of partially ordered sets commonly called domains. ... In the mathematical area of order theory, the compact or finite elements of a partially ordered set are those elements that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any directed set that does not already contain members above the compact element. ... Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. ...