Compaction

Origin

From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.

Full definition of compaction

Noun

1. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
• 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.