The phrase "a compact body of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small, dense, or tightly packed collection of something, often in a scientific or technical context.
Example: "The researchers discovered a compact body of evidence that supported their hypothesis."
Alternatives: "a dense collection of" or "a small group of".
I follow a few aspects of Avicenna's syllogistic through its treatment in the thirteenth century, and its transformation into a compact body of doctrine taught in the madrasa.
The Britons required a considerable space, as their wives, children, and cattle were with them; but the Romans, being a compact body of fighting men, required less room, and cut off about a third of the original area by throwing up a strong bank 30 feet high, 400 yards from the west end, and constructing four gates as usual.
When we arrived for the first class, we found a young woman — Miss Gerdes — with blonde hair & a compact body, standing in front of about 100 men & women who ranged in age from 16 to over 60... Writer learns the monkey, the dip, and the mambo on the first night, as well as the stroll, the worm, the fish, the fish fry, the octopus, the sidecar, on the second night.
We study in detail, using analytical approximations and numerical solution, the transverse impact interaction of a compact body with an infinitely long Euler-Bernoulli beam.
He has written two volumes of a fictional diary and three collections of lectures and essays - but when he became the 2002 Nobel laureate it was for an unusually compact body of work.
Since John [18] initiated semi-infinite programming precisely to deduce important results about two such geometric problems: the problems of covering a compact body in finite dimensional spaces by the minimum-volume disk and the minimum-volume ellipsoid, many researchers have been investigated the theory, applications and methods for the semi-infinite programming (see, for example, [19 22]).
Its mission: to put the photographic quality of an S.L.R. into a compact body.
In these pseudo-S.L.R. cameras, a series of breakthroughs work together — eliminating the prism box, shrinking the lens diameter — to permit a big sensor in a compact body.
A physical fitness fanatic, Mr. Valenti has the compact body of a welterweight and last year earned a black belt in tae kwon do.
But, teasing aside, Sugar sincerely believes Caroline would make a fine subject for a painting: the small, pretty face and compact body of the older woman are so much more classically picturesque than her own bony physique.
