compact unit

collocation in English

meaningsofcompactandunit

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compact
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpækt/us
/kəmˈpækt/
consisting of parts that are positioned together closely or in a tidy way, using very ...
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unit
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪt/us
/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition ofcompactandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is meant by a morecompactunit, economically, politically and so forth?
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Indeed, the whole community, which should be acompactunit, is not treated so.
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A factory is acompactunit; by its very nature, a farm is not so.
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Take a county borough, because that is acompactunit.
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The system operates like a furnace, water heater, and electricity providerall in onecompactunit.
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Mounted vertically in a road wheel bogie for a pair of road wheels in a tank made a verycompactunit.
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However innocuous it sounds, thecompactunitassumption is essential in the statement of the result above, as demonstrated by the following result.
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The mechanics, motion drives, control electronics and computing are all integrated into onecompactunit.
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Compact beam sodars also reduce the effect of fixed echos and allow a morecompactunitdesign.
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These engines are mainly of the dual piston type, giving acompactunitwith high power-to-weight ratio.
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The dwellings are mostly designed as compact units of about i2om2 average floor area.
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In the machine vision field, a singlecompactunitwhich combines the imaging functions and the complete image processing functions is often called a smart sensor.
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Unlike the larger cyclonic models produced by the same company, thiscompactunituses conventional filter bags, but retains most of the other advantages of a central vacuum system.
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There should be little dishonesty in compact units.
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Generally speaking, the coasting industry is divided up into a number of small compact units.
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My suggestion was that the divisional boards should contain a greater number of areas, so that the men managing them could deal with much more compact units.
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Later it was found that the liftgate trucks had more compact units and these units were soon replacing the aircraft units.
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These parliamentary enclosures consolidated strips in the open fields into more compact units, and enclosed much of the remaining pasture commons or "wastes".
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Griddle plate depth (front-to-back) is typically 24-inches (610mm), though compact units may be as shallow as 18inmm 0, and deep units can be up to 30inmm 0 in depth.
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