compressions

Noun

compression (countable and uncountable, plural compressions)

1. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
2. The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
3. 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
4. The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
5. The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.