compression
/kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən/
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Australia/kəmˈpɹeʃ.ən/
compression noun: an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
Noun
compression (countable and uncountable, plural compressions)
- An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
- The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
- The process by which data is compressed.
- Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property...2011 May 13, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2011, retrieved 26 Sep 2012
- The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
- The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
compression meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
compression in Hindi
- संपीड़न, संपीडन
compression in Tamil
- அமுக்கம், அமுக்குதல், அழுத்தம், அழுத்தத்தால் தட்டையாதல், அழுத்தமேற்றல், சுருக்கம்
compression in Marathi
- संपीड़न, संपीडन, संकुचन
compression in Urdu
- فشار
More languagesFewer languages
- compression in Bengali
- সংনমন, চাপা
- compression in Telugu
- అదమడము adamaḍamu
- compression in Malayalam
- ഞെരുക്കൽ, അമർത്തൽ, പരത്തൽ, ചുരുക്കൽ
- compression in Kannada
- ಒತ್ತುವಿಕೆ, ನಾಲ್ಬಡಿತದ ಬಿಣಿಗೆಚಕ್ರದ ಎರಡನೇ ಬಡಿತ
- compression in Gujarati
- કોમ્પ્રેશન, સંપીડ઼ન
- compression in Odia
- କମ୍ପ୍ରେସନ୍, ସଂପୀଡ଼ନ
- compression in Nepali
- कम्प्रेसन, संपीड़न
- compression in Tagalog
- tipil, pagpipiga, pag-compress
- compression in Indonesian
- kompresi
Examples of compression in a sentence
- They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
- JPEG is a lossy image compression format.
- Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.
Antonyms of compression
Forms of compression
| plural | compressions |
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Origin of compression
Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō, equivalent to compress + -ion.
Words formed from compression
- age compression
- aortocaval compression syndrome
- companding
- compansion
- compressional
- compression fracture
- compressionless
- compression pump
- compression ratio
- compression release
- compression set
- compression shorts
- compression sock
- compression wave
- compression wood
- cryocompression
- data compression
- effective compression
- electrocompression
- globe of compression
- microcompression
- New York compression
- noncompression
- overcompression
- parallel compression
- precompression
- recompression
- selective compression
- supercompression
- thermocompression
- time compression
- time-space compression
- uncompression
- vasocompression
- wavelet compression
Phrases with compression
Words that rhyme with compression
- freshen
- expression
- impression
- possession
- session
- depression
- confession
- recession
- profession
- obsession
- cession
- oppression
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Questions about compression
- What does compression mean?
- Compression means an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
- What is compression in Hindi?
- Compression in Hindi is संपीड़न, संपीडन. See Compression meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is compression?
- Compression is a noun.
- How do you pronounce compression?
- Compression is pronounced /kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of compression?
- The plural of compression is compressions.
Words near compression in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: compression (page history and authors); compression (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); compression (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compression (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); compression (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compression (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అదమడము (Telugu) (page history and authors); compression (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compression (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compression (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); compression (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); compression (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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