compressed
IPA: kʌmprˈɛst
adjective
- Pressed tightly together.
- Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
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Examples of "compressed" in Sentences
- The cartridge can also transfer the data at a high speed of 72 MB/s in compressed mode.
- Eagle Base has five smaller outposts, which offer much the same view in compressed form.
- Each breast is essentially a heavy-duty balloon with a built in compressed air cartridge.
- Seattle Bon Vivant recommends Le Palais des Thés green teas (packaged, in compressed tea blocks or loose in beautiful pots).
- (Yes, air often is acquired and used without involving commerce, but it is sometimes bought and sold, especially in compressed form.)
- "Spunnels" in the public's jargon, came into being, the term compressed from the phrase "hyperspace tunnels," a universal phenomenon once suspected and eventually confirmed.
- [GridIron] published test results indicate that a 60 second NTSC broadcast was compressed from a raw file size of 923 Mbytes to an MPEG4 encoded file of 13 Mbytes — a 98.75% reduction in size.
- The other lab-experiment dessert utilizes what they call compressed fruit, which to me looks like cantaloupe and honeydew cubes with cold melon soup and a few flowers in a cool asymmetrical bowl.
- It was also notable for lasting 11 seasons while the Korean War lasted less than 3 years, so the passage of time on the show was heavily compressed from the "one week per episode" formula you usually see.
- A long time ago I was thinking about compression methods and had thoughts along the same lines, trying to consider at what point it became more practical to assign everything a reference number rather than storing the image itself in compressed form.
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