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Compaction vs Noncompaction - What's the difference?

compaction | noncompaction |

As nouns the difference between compaction and noncompaction

is that compaction is the process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted while noncompaction is (medicine) a disorder in which the heart muscle fails to undergo the usual compaction and remains spongy rather than solid, leading to cardiomyopathy.

compaction

English

(wikipedia compaction)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • noncompaction

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) A disorder in which the heart muscle fails to undergo the usual compaction and remains spongy rather than solid, leading to cardiomyopathy.