Explain compaction

Briefly explain compaction?

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Throughout the procedure of removal and loading of procedure in and out of the memory, the free memory obtains broken in smaller pieces. Such pieces lie dispersed in the memory. Compaction means movement of such pieces close to each other to form a bigger chunk of memory that works as a resource to run larger procedures.

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