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ungzip

/ʌnˈd͡ʒiːzɪp/

ungzip verb: to decompress (data previously gzipped).

Verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

  1. (transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).
    • I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405
    • This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764

Forms of ungzip

third-person singular presentungzips
present participleungzipping
past participleungzipped
pastungzipped

Origin of ungzip

From un- + gzip.

Questions about ungzip

What does ungzip mean?
Ungzip means to decompress (data previously gzipped).
What part of speech is ungzip?
Ungzip is a verb.
How do you pronounce ungzip?
Ungzip is pronounced /ʌnˈd͡ʒiːzɪp/.
What is the past tense of ungzip?
The past tense of ungzip is ungzipped.

Words near ungzip in the dictionary

  1. ungypsylike
  2. ungyve
  3. ungyved
  4. ungyves
  5. ungyving
  6. ungzip
  7. ungzipped
  8. ungzipping
  9. ungzips
  10. unh
  11. unh uh

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