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General meaning ...
Compact cameras are cameras which have appropriate dimensions for putting them into the pocket of a jacket instead of a special camera bag. Compacts can be pocket cameras for 110 film, rollfilm folding cameras for the small roll film formats, and, in most cases, cameras for 35mm film or APS film. Many simple point-and-shoot cameras are compacts. The most digital cameras are compacts.
... and what we talk about
When talking about compacts today people don't think of old compact folders but of handy cameras with several automatic features: automatic film advance, automatic exposure, automatic focusing, automatic closing of the lens cover after usage, and automatic flash. Several very compact viewfinder cameras like the Olympus XA which don't have all of these features are still mentioned as compact cameras too.
Since compactness is a common characteristic of modern digicams the term compact camera is not so common in that field. But with two types of film cameras the term does not make an own category for camerapedia.
