The phrase "a compact piece of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is small in size but still contains essential or significant content or features.
Example: "The designer created a compact piece of furniture that fits perfectly in small living spaces."
Alternatives: "a small item of" or "a concise element of".
"Build a compact piece of work with the right leverage, and you can solve a very big problem".
Built on a compact piece of seaside land on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, the course was opened in 1891 after the club, in search of more space, hired Old Tom Morris to design a new home.
Instead of rewriting old programs or translating them so that they will work on diverse operating systems, programmers can simply write a compact piece of code and, using the.Net framework, be relatively sure that it will work well on many systems, including hand-helds, tablet computers and any number of future devices.
The word concentric has appeared in 56 New York Times articles in the past year, including on July 18 in "Back to Muirfield's Venerable Links" by Christopher Clarey: Built on a compact piece of seaside land on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, the course was opened in 1891 after the club, in search of more space, hired Old Tom Morris to design a new home.
The solution of the previous system is based on the deformation of a compact piece of a scaled Costa-Hoffman-Meeks minimal surface contained in the unit ball.
The proof of the existence of solutions of the capillarity type problem is based on the deformation of a compact piece of the minimal surfaces M k, τ.
Judges' comment: "A subtle, compact piece of writing about a relationship, its blossoming and digressions". In a nutshell: A boy remembers his life in a house his father built with his bare hands in an isolated wood.
The fourth, from 2006, a tumultuous, compact piece of just 12 minutes, ingeniously synthesizes diverse strands of Mr. Kirchner's language.
Turn your article into a compact piece that informs and entertains in minimal words.
The new quartet, a stunningly tumultuous and compact piece of just 12 minutes, synthesizes many elements of Mr. Kirchner's language.
I'd gazingly stare at the compact piece of musical engineering and experiment with the on-board microphone.
