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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Dictionary Results for compress: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
compress
n 1: a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication)
applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve
discomfort or reduce fever)
v 1: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the
data" [syn: compress, compact, pack together] [ant:
decompress, uncompress]
2: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the
spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict,
squeeze, compact, contract, press]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Compress \Com"press\, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.)
A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover
the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a
bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Compress \Com*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compressed; p. pr &
vb. n. Compressing.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to
compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]
1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower
compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact;
to condense; as, to compress air or water.
[1913 Webster]
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the
compass of a single life. --D. Webster.
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The same strength of expression, though more
compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
--Melmoth.
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2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.
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3. (Computers) to reduce the space required for storage (of
binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a
smaller number of bits while preserving the information
content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to
recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
[PJC]
Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
[1913 Webster]
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4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
compress
vt.
[Unix] When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a
file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost
et al.: and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this
sense is rare among Unix hackers. Specifically, compress is built around
the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in ?A Technique for High
Performance Data Compression?, Terry A. Welch, IEEE Computer, vol. 17, no.
6 (June 1984), pp. 8--19.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
compress
1. To feed data through any compression algorithm.
2. The Unix program "compress", now largely
supplanted by gzip.
Unix compress was written in C by Joseph M. Orost, James
A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via Usenet. It
uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch algorithm and normally produces
files with the suffix ".Z".
Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit
codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs,
ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an
implementation-dependent maximum is reached.
After every 10 kilobytes of input the compression ratio is
checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is
discarded and information is collected from scratch.
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