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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
- Compactor, a device that performs compaction
- Compaction a cellular differentiation process in the early embryo