ultracompact

adjective

ul·​tra·​com·​pact ˌəl-trə-kəm-ˈpakt 

-käm-ˈpakt, 

-ˈkäm-ˌpakt

: occupying an extremely small volume : very compact

ultracompact vehicles

an ultracompact computer

Examples of ultracompact in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

These motherboards are ultracompact, and square like mATX boards, but with the same-size IO shield at the back. — Brad Bourque, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024

In order to mimic a black hole, an ultracompact object ought to have a light ring of its own, says Vitor Cardoso, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Niels Bohr Institute. — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023

Our testers noted that this ultracompact SUV was fun and comfortable to drive, but that getting accustomed to feeling so low to the ground took a while. — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2021

Cold-cathode vacuum devices would usher in a new generation of ultracompact, high-fidelity, high-efficiency amplifiers, which could be used, for instance, in powerful yet tiny RF transmitters on small satellites. — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2015

And now, ongoing research into a new and potentially revolutionary kind of traveling-wave tube—the ultracompact and ultraefficient cold-cathode TWT—looks poised to deliver the first practical device by the end of this decade. — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2015

By controlling electrons, that atom can modulate the flow of information and so be the foundation of a new kind of ultrafast, ultracompact computer. — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2013

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ultracompact

• compact