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gzipping

gzipping is the present participle and gerund of gzip.

Meaning of gzip

Verb

gzip (third-person singular simple present gzips, present participle gzipping, simple past and past participle gzipped)

  1. (transitive) To compress using the gzip program.
    • One way to deal with this issue is to add the compress command, which gzips the old logs as they are rotated.2000, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, General Linux I: exam prep

Questions about gzipping

What is gzipping the present participle and gerund of?
Gzipping is the present participle and gerund of gzip.

Words near gzipping in the dictionary

  1. Gzhelian
  2. gzi bead
  3. gzi beads
  4. gzip
  5. gzipped
  6. gzipping
  7. gzips
  8. GZK
  9. GZK Cut Off
  10. GZK Cut-Off
  11. GZK Cutoff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gzipping (page history and authors); gzip (page history and authors). 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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