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Definitions for compressed
kəmˈprɛstcom·pressed
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Princeton's WordNet
compressed, tightadjective
pressed tightly together
"with lips compressed"
compressedadjective
reduced in volume by pressure
"compressed air"
compressed, flatadjective
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Wiktionary
compressedadjective
Pressed tightly together.
compressedadjective
Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
Webster Dictionary
Compressed
of Compress
Compressedadjective
pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure
Compressedadjective
flattened lengthwise
Entomology
Compressed
flattened laterally.
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decompress
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of compressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of compressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of compressed in a Sentence
This morning we were able to send compressed air for them to breathe, but this afternoon there's no compressed air anymore because all the tubes were blocked.
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:
I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
It's certainly a compressed process with a high degree of urgency behind it.
This is the equivalent of doing phases one, two and three of a typical clinical trial but all compressed into the May through October time frame.
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