different between compaction vs compactional

English

From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.

compaction (countable and uncountable, plural compactions)

The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
  At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.

compaction +? -al

compactional (comparative more compactional, superlative most compactional)

Send