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/kəmprˈɛsɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Compress v. t. (past & past part. compressed; pres. part. compressing)

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." "The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues."

To embrace sexually. (Obs.)

(Computers) To reduce the space required for storage (of binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a smaller number of bits while preserving the information content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to recover the initial data format before subsequent use.

Synonyms: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.

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Etymology of 'Compressing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... world—its poets, lawmakers, warriors, ascetics, kings—even the Prophet. And now they came one by one, as one by one they had come in their several days, and kissed the insensate thing; and between the coming and going time was scarcely perceptible. The mind has the faculty of compressing, by one mighty effort, the incidents of a life, even of centuries, ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... the mirrors and wonder, with infinity of interest, "how that one geranium leaf does look;" this shrivelling up of man's moral dignity, until it is no more observable with the naked eye; this taking of a woman's heart, that God meant should be filled with all amenities, and compressing it until all the fragrance, and simplicity, and artlessness are squeezed out of it; this inquisition of a small shoe; this agony of tight lacing; this wrapping up of mind and heart in a ruffle; this tumbling down of a soul that God meant for ...

— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage

... both equally unpractised, and our first endeavours showed that we could not be confident of the twentieth part of a second. In fact, both the time occupied in causing the extremities of the fingers to obey the volition, as well as the time employed in compressing the flesh before the fingers acted on the stop, appeared to influence the accuracy of our observations. From some few experiments I made, I thought I perceived that the rapidity of the transmission of the effects of the ...

— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage

... are made by using a cubic inch of the metal and compressing it, and by trying to draw apart a square inch of ...

— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... went, and in a short time had reached the dairy, where the curdled milk was ready for her. First she went to the spring in the yard to cool her hands and arms, and then with shining wooden saucer, she broke up the creamy curds, gradually compressing them into a solid mass, while the delicious whey was poured into a quaint ...

— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine

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