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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.IDENTIFICATION AND SURVEYS

3.SPACE DISTRIBUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

4.DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES

5.STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY

5.1.Shapes and Orientations

5.2.Compact Group Galaxies

5.3.Optical Luminosity Function

5.4.Star Formation and Nuclear Activity

5.5.Diffuse Light

5.6.Cool Gas

5.7.Hot Gas

6.PHYSICAL NATURE

6.1.Discordant Redshifts

6.2.Physical Association and Density

7.COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

7.1.Clustering and Large-Scale Structure

7.2.Galaxy Evolution and Merging

7.3.Role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution

7.4.Gravitational Lensing

7.5.Cosmology

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