COMPRESS

Compress

Compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78.

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compress

Noun

  1. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
    He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  2. A machine for compressing

Verb

  1. To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
    The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  2. To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
    ''Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  3. To condense into a more economic, easier format.
    This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  4. To abridge.
    If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  5. To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
  6. To embrace sexually.


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