compress
IPA: kˈɑmprɛs
noun
- A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
- A machine for compressing.
verb
- (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- (transitive) To abridge.
- (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
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Examples of "compress" in Sentences
- The box is compressible.
- The converse holds in compression.
- The space contains a compressible agent.
- It does so by compression and rarefaction.
- The man pressed on the compression button.
- The tail is compressed laterally and ridged.
- Compressing the gas increases the temperature.
- A wedge member compresses the dross in the trough.
- Desirably, the walls are of a compressible material.
- Modeling is the same for compression and decompression.