Compression
noun
The act of pressing something into a smaller space or quantity.
The compression of a gas into a smaller container.
Often appears as...
- compression of data
- compression of gases
noun
The reduction in volume causing an increase in pressure of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine.
High compression improves engine efficiency.
Often appears as...
- compression ratio
- engine compression
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Technical
noun
The process by which something is made smaller or more compact.
Data compression is essential for efficient web browsing.
Often appears as...
- data compression
- file compression
noun
The application of pressure to part of the body to prevent excessive bleeding or swelling.
The nurse applied compression to the wound.
Often appears as...
- compression bandage
- compression therapy
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Medical
noun
The act of pressing something into a smaller space or quantity.
The compression of a gas into a smaller container.
Often appears as...
- compression of data
- compression of gases
noun
The reduction in volume causing an increase in pressure of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine.
High compression improves engine efficiency.
Often appears as...
- compression ratio
- engine compression
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The process by which something is made smaller or more compact.
Data compression is essential for efficient web browsing.
Often appears as...
- data compression
- file compression
noun
The application of pressure to part of the body to prevent excessive bleeding or swelling.
The nurse applied compression to the wound.
Often appears as...
- compression bandage
- compression therapy
Usage tips
Medical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Process
Compression means physically squeezing, often to fit something into a smaller space.
Using compression, you can fit more clothes in your suitcase.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Compression doesn't just apply to solid objects; invisible gases and liquids can also be compressed.
Divers use tanks with compressed air.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'compression' is used in a non-physical sense, like squeezing words for a summary.
I used compression to shorten my essay.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Process
Compression means physically squeezing, often to fit something into a smaller space.
Using compression, you can fit more clothes in your suitcase.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Compression doesn't just apply to solid objects; invisible gases and liquids can also be compressed.
Divers use tanks with compressed air.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'compression' is used in a non-physical sense, like squeezing words for a summary.
I used compression to shorten my essay.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Process
Compression means physically squeezing, often to fit something into a smaller space.
Using compression, you can fit more clothes in your suitcase.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Compression doesn't just apply to solid objects; invisible gases and liquids can also be compressed.
Divers use tanks with compressed air.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'compression' is used in a non-physical sense, like squeezing words for a summary.
I used compression to shorten my essay.
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On exploring the oceans...
up there we understood mountains under compression but we could not understand why we had a mountain under tension should not be until one of my colleagues said it looks to me like a thermal blister and the mid-ocean ridge must be a cooling curve we said let's go find out we punched a bunch of heat probes everything made sense except that the
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Ali Carr-Chellman:...
Are there men around that table? Are there moms who've raised boys around that table? You'll see, the conversation changes depending upon who's sitting around the table. Third reason that boys are out of sync with school Kindergarten is the old second grade, folks. We have a serious compression of the curriculum happening out there.
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Michel Laberge: How...
There's always a catch. So when you compress that, the plasma cools down faster than the compression speed, so you're trying to compress it, but the plasma cooled down and cooled down and cooled down and then it did absolutely nothing. So when I saw that, I said, well, this is such a shame,
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Simon Lewis: Don't take...
were able to identify where that compression in the hose pipe was occurring. A vascular surgeon removed most of the first rib on both sides of my body. And in the following months and years, I felt the neurological flow of life itself returning. Communication, the next C. This is critical.
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Why Black girls are...
a specific type of age compression, where they're seen as more adult-like than their white peers. Among other things, the study found that people perceive black girls to need less nurturing, less protection, to know more about sex and to be more independent than their white peers.
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The Gateway to Secret...
really really deep even with scuba gear the weight of all that water pressing down on your body especially your lungs day after day that can be dangerous you know you go down the compression compression the compression every day it's not very good for the
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Design at the...
And this happens across scales. The silkworm first attaches itself to the environment -- it creates a tensile structure -- and it then starts spinning a compressive cocoon. Tension and compression, the two forces of life, manifested in a single material.
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Can we create new senses...
the important signals are temperature and butyric acid; in the world of the black ghost knifefish, its sensory world is lavishly colored by electrical fields; and for the echolocating bat, its reality is constructed out of air compression waves.
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Bridges should be...
depending on the nature of the structural system that they adopt as their principal support. So, bending, of course, is the way a beam will behave -- so, beams and bending. Or compression is the principal way of operating for an arch.
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An update on BMI PIPE...
the usual rest ice compression and elevation but nothing happened nothing helped so as primary care for doctor his
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On exploring the oceans...
up there we understood mountains under compression but we could not understand why we had a mountain under tension should not be until one of my colleagues said it looks to me like a thermal blister and the mid-ocean ridge must be a cooling curve we said let's go find out we punched a bunch of heat probes everything made sense except that the
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Ali Carr-Chellman:...
Are there men around that table? Are there moms who've raised boys around that table? You'll see, the conversation changes depending upon who's sitting around the table. Third reason that boys are out of sync with school Kindergarten is the old second grade, folks. We have a serious compression of the curriculum happening out there.
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Michel Laberge: How...
There's always a catch. So when you compress that, the plasma cools down faster than the compression speed, so you're trying to compress it, but the plasma cooled down and cooled down and cooled down and then it did absolutely nothing. So when I saw that, I said, well, this is such a shame,
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Simon Lewis: Don't take...
were able to identify where that compression in the hose pipe was occurring. A vascular surgeon removed most of the first rib on both sides of my body. And in the following months and years, I felt the neurological flow of life itself returning. Communication, the next C. This is critical.
Video examples
Why Black girls are...
a specific type of age compression, where they're seen as more adult-like than their white peers. Among other things, the study found that people perceive black girls to need less nurturing, less protection, to know more about sex and to be more independent than their white peers.
Video examples
The Gateway to Secret...
really really deep even with scuba gear the weight of all that water pressing down on your body especially your lungs day after day that can be dangerous you know you go down the compression compression the compression every day it's not very good for the
Video examples
Design at the...
And this happens across scales. The silkworm first attaches itself to the environment -- it creates a tensile structure -- and it then starts spinning a compressive cocoon. Tension and compression, the two forces of life, manifested in a single material.
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
the important signals are temperature and butyric acid; in the world of the black ghost knifefish, its sensory world is lavishly colored by electrical fields; and for the echolocating bat, its reality is constructed out of air compression waves.
Video examples
Bridges should be...
depending on the nature of the structural system that they adopt as their principal support. So, bending, of course, is the way a beam will behave -- so, beams and bending. Or compression is the principal way of operating for an arch.
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An update on BMI PIPE...
the usual rest ice compression and elevation but nothing happened nothing helped so as primary care for doctor his
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Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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Eric Schmidt
American Businessman
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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Kenneth Lonergan
American Playwright
I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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Ross Levinsohn
American Businessman
My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.
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David Shields
American Author
So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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Gary Bettman
American Businessman
While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
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Iris Chang
Chinese Historian
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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Daniel Woodrell
American Writer
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
British Athlete
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
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Andy Jassy
American Businessman
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
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Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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Eric Schmidt
American Businessman
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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Kenneth Lonergan
American Playwright
I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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Ross Levinsohn
American Businessman
My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.
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David Shields
American Author
So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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Gary Bettman
American Businessman
While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
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Iris Chang
Chinese Historian
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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Daniel Woodrell
American Writer
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
British Athlete
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
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Andy Jassy
American Businessman
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
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