26984 words

compressed

4 definitions • 5 examples
1
past simple and past participle of
2
to press something into a smaller space:

Examples:

Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure.
compressed air
3
to make information, a piece of writing, etc. shorter:

Examples:

The course compresses two year's training into six intensive months.
I managed to compress ten pages of notes into four paragraphs.
4
to make a computer file use less space when it is stored in the memory of a computer or on a disk, by using a special program:

Examples:

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