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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Made dense or close in texture, composition, or expression; compressed; compact: as, a condensed style.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Psychol) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol.
  • adjective shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts. Opposite of unabridged.
  • adjective reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form. Opposite of uncondensed.
  • adjective narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of expanded.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of condense.
  • adjective The state of having been condensed; highly concentrated.

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