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CompressCompress Com*press", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compressed; p. pr &
vb. n. Compressing.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to
compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]
1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower
compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact;
to condense; as, to compress air or water.
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the
compass of a single life. --D. Webster.
The same strength of expression, though more
compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
--Melmoth.
2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.
Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge. Compress
Compress Com"press, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.)
A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover
the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a
bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Meaning of Compress from wikipedia
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compress is a Unix s****
compression program based on the LZW
compression algorithm.
Compared to gzip's
fastest setting,
compress is
slightly slower at...
- A warm
compress is a
method of
applying heat to the body.
Heating sources can
include warm water,
microwaveable pads,
wheat packs and
electrical or chemical...
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Compressed hydrogen (CH2, CGH2 or CGH2) is the
gaseous state of the
element hydrogen kept
under pressure.
Compressed hydrogen in
hydrogen tanks at 350...
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Compressed air is air kept
under a
pressure that is
greater than
atmospheric pressure.
Compressed air is an
important medium for
transfer of
energy in...
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Compressed sensing (also
known as
compressive sensing,
compressive sampling, or sp**** sampling) is a
signal processing technique for
efficiently acquiring...
- In mechanics,
compressive strength (or
compression strength) is the
capacity of a
material or
structure to
withstand loads tending to
reduce size (as...
- A
compressed fluid (also
called a
compressed or
unsaturated liquid,
subcooled fluid or liquid) is a
fluid under mechanical or
thermodynamic conditions...
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Utils can
compress and
decompress the xz and lzma file formats.
Since the LZMA
format has been
considered legacy, XZ
Utils by
default compresses to xz. In...
- Jean-loup
Gailly and Mark
Adler as a free
software replacement for the
compress program used in
early Unix systems, and
intended for use by GNU (from where...
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Compression ratio, of a
combustion engine Compression (geology)
Compression or
compressive strength Data compression,
reducing the data
required for information...
