Kompakterer

Kompakterer is a verb used in Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish to mean to make something more compact or to compress. The form kompakterer is used for third-person singular present tense. The root kompakt comes from the adjective kompakt (compact), itself from Latin compactus.

In usage, kompakterer describes reducing size, volume, or complexity of a thing, whether by physical packing or by data processing. In computing and digital media, kompaktering refers to data compression, where algorithms remove redundancy to reduce file size. This can be lossless, enabling exact reconstruction, or lossy, trading some information for greater reduction. In physical contexts, kompaktere actions involve space-saving packaging, rearranging components, or densifying layouts.

The term appears across technical and industrial contexts, including software interfaces, logistics, and engineering. It is common to encounter phrases such as "kompaktere filer" or "kompaktere bilder" in ICT and media contexts.

See also: compression, data compression, packaging, densification, optimization.