Sekirov Dictionary

compress

/kəmˈpɹɛs/

verb 7
/ˈkɑmpɹɛs/ noun 2
forms 6

verb7

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To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
•
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
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To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input. — 2015
•
To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
- Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […] — 2019
•
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
•
To abridge.
- If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
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(no longer used) To embrace sexually.
- This nymph compress'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian isle obey, / Andraemon lov'd; and, bless'd in all those charms / That pleas'd a God, succeeded to her arms. — 1717

compress

UK /ˈkɒmpɹɛs/US /ˈkɑmpɹɛs/

noun2

•
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.
- He held a cold compress over the sprain.
A machine for compressing.

forms

compressed · comprest · compressing · compresses · compresseth · compressest

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