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CLOSE-PACKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does close-packed mean?
• CLOSE-PACKED (adjective)
The adjective CLOSE-PACKED has 1 sense:
1. packed especially tightly
Familiarity information: CLOSE-PACKED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Packed especially tightly
Similar:
compact (closely and firmly united or packed together)
Context examples
The close-packed throng extended from the other side of the Langham Hotel to Oxford Circus.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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