compaction
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com·pac·tion (kəm-păk'shən) 
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The process of compacting or the state of being compacted.
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1. The process of inducing a closer packing of the solid particles in freshly mixed concrete or mortar during placement by reducing the volume of voids, usually by vibration, centrifugation, tamping, or some combination of these actions.
2. A similar manipulation of other cementitious mixtures, soils, aggregate, or the like.
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Packing together as in twin births when both fetuses engage the pelvis at the same time, in prolonged constipation in dogs, and in compaction of endochondral bone as a part of normal bone modeling.
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Compaction' may refer to:
- Soil compaction, for mechanically induced compaction near the ground surface
- Compaction (geology), part of the process of lithification involving mechanical dewatering of a sediment by progressive loading under several km of geomaterial
- Waste compaction, related to garbage
- Cold compaction, powder compaction at low temperatures
- Data compaction, related to computers
- Compactor, a device that performs compaction
- Compaction, a process during early embryogenesis
See also
- Compact (disambiguation)
- Compactification (disambiguation)
- Impaction
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