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Compaction may refer to:

• Soil compaction, for mechanically induced compaction near the ground surface
• Compaction of ceramic powders
• 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
  • Curve-fitting compaction
• Compactor, a device that performs compaction
• Compaction a cellular differentiation process in the early embryo

See also

• Compact (disambiguation)
• Compactification (disambiguation)
• Impaction (disambiguation)

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