What does compress mean?
Definitions for compress
kəmˈprɛs; ˈkɒm prɛscom·press
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Princeton's WordNet
compressverb
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
compress, compact, pack togetherverb
make more compact by or as if by pressing
"compress the data"
compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb
squeeze or press together
"she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
GCIDE
Compressverb
(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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Compressnoun
Bolsters of linen rags, by which surgeons suit their bandages for any particular part or purpose. John Quincy
Etymology: from the verb.
I applied an intercipient about the ankle and upper part of the foot, and by compress and bandage dressed it up. Richard Wiseman.
To COMPRESSverb
Etymology: compressus, Latin.
Her Neptune ey’d, with bloom of beauty blest,
And in his cave the yielding nymph comprest. Alexander Pope, Odyss.There was in the island of Io a young girl compressed by a genius, who delighted to associate with the muses. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
Compress
compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio. The uncompress utility will restore files to their original state after they have been compressed using the compress utility. If no files are specified, the standard input will be uncompressed to the standard output. In the upcoming POSIX and Single Unix Specification revision, it is planned that DEFLATE algorithm used in gzip format be supported in those utilities.
ChatGPT
compress
To compress means to reduce in size, volume, quantity, or scope by applying pressure; to make smaller or more compact. In the context of data or files, it refers to the process of reducing the amount of space needed for storage or transmission. Compress can also mean to express an idea or piece of information in a more concise or condensed form.
Webster Dictionary
Compressverb
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
Compressverb
to embrace sexually
Compressnoun
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
Etymology: [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]
Wikidata
compress
Compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78. The uncompress utility will restore files to their original state after they have been compressed using the compress utility. If no files are specified, the standard input will be uncompressed to the standard output.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Compress
kom-pres′, v.t. to press together: to force into a narrower space: to condense or concentrate.—n. Com′press, soft folds of linen, &c., formed into a pad, and used in surgery to apply any requisite pressure to any part: a wet cloth, covered with waterproof, applied to the skin.—adj. Compressed′.—ns. Compressibil′ity, Compres′sibleness, the property that bodies have of being reduced in volume by pressure—the ratio of the amount of compression per unit volume to the compressing force applied.—adj. Compres′sible, that may be compressed.—n. Compres′sion, act of compressing: state of being compressed, condensation.—adjs. Compres′sional; Compres′sive, able to compress.—ns. Compres′sor, anything that compresses; a muscle that compresses certain parts; Compres′sure.—Compressed-air bath, a strong chamber of iron plates in which a patient can sit, and into which air is driven by a steam-engine to any required pressure; Compressed-air motor, any mode of employing air as a motive-power, as in automatic railway-brakes, &c. [L. compressāre, com, together, and pressāre, to press—premĕre, pressum, to press.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
compress
[Unix] When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost et al.: and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in “A Technique for High Performance Data Compression”, Terry A. Welch, IEEE Computer, vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8--19.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
compress
A pad of soft linen used by the surgeon for the dressing of a wound.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of compress in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of compress in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of compress in a Sentence
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
They talked about binders – things that compress a girl’s chest to make it appear you don’t have what is there, and they talked about how students can make fake testicles by filling pantyhose with rice and sewing them into their panties.
The technologies I see as having the biggest impact are those that compress the time needed to build trust.
This will allow aerospace companies to compress their development cycles because we are making these prototype engines three or four times faster than normal.
We've got to use the full power of the U.S. government and the private sector here to compress all of those (drug trial) timelines, reduce inefficiency in development and use the power of the U.S. government to produce at risk, scale hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines even while we're running the clinical trials to prove their safe and effective.
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- сгъстявам, сгъстявам се, сбивам, компрес, сбивам се, компримирамBulgarian
- kompresCzech
- Kompresse, komprimierenGerman
- comprimirse, comprimirSpanish
- pakata, kompressoida, kompressoituaFinnish
- comprimer, compresse, compresserFrench
- dlúthaighIrish
- borogatásHungarian
- ճզմել, սեղմելArmenian
- þjappaIcelandic
- comprimereItalian
- 要約, 湿布, 圧縮Japanese
- whakawhāitiMāori
- verdichten, samendrukken, krimpen, samenvatten, kompres, comprimerenDutch
- уплотнить, сдавить, компресс, сжаться, сжать, сдавливать, уплотнять, сжимать, сжиматьсяRussian
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