0 a machine that crushes material, especially waste material, so that it fits into a smaller space: --
a trash compactor
1 a device that crushes garbage into a smaller and denser form --
Machinery such as trench rollers, reversible compactors, single drum rollers, vibratory plates, mini rollers etc. are and example of that.
Normally powered by hydraulics, compactors take many shapes and sizes.
Dark matter acts as a compactor of structure.
Their sound has been described as a jackhammer being ground in a compactor.
Garbage compactors and waste collection vehicles compress waste so that more of it can be stored in the same space.
The washer compactors help remove organics, which are odor causing and take up space in hauling bins.
So-called continuous compactors were popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
With no choice but to obey her commands, he climbs into the waste compactor and starts it up.
