compressing

Verb

compress (third-person singular simple present compresses, present participle compressing, simple past and past participle compressed)

1. (transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze

   Antonyms:

   expand

2. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
   • Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel

   Synonyms:

   contract

   Antonyms:

   decontract

3. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
   • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
4. (transitive) To abridge.
   • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.

   Synonyms:

   abridge, condense, shorten, truncate, abbreviate, chop down, chop off, cut short, curt, curtail

   Antonyms:

   expand, lengthen

5. (transitive) 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, Vince Buffalo, Bioinformatics Data Skills […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   zip

   Antonyms:

   uncompress, decompress, unzip

6. (transitive) 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, B. Webb et al., “Simulation of grating compressor misalignment tolerances and mitigation strategies for chirped-pulse–amplification systems of varying bandwidths and beam sizes”, in Applied...

   Antonyms:

   stretch

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