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Definitions for compressed
kəmˈprɛstcom·pressed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. compressed, tightadjective

    pressed tightly together

    "with lips compressed"

  2. compressedadjective

    reduced in volume by pressure

    "compressed air"

  3. compressed, flatadjective

    flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

Wiktionary

  1. compressedadjective

    Pressed tightly together.

  2. compressedadjective

    Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

ChatGPT

  1. compressed

    Compressed generally refers to the process of reducing the size, amount, or volume of something, often for efficiency or convenience. Compression can be applied to various context - data, files, gases, substances, etc. It may also refer to the state of being pressed together or compacted.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Compressed

    of Compress

  2. Compressedadjective

    pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure

  3. Compressedadjective

    flattened lengthwise

Entomology

  1. Compressed

    flattened laterally.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of compressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of compressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of compressed in a Sentence

  1. Lisa Kauke:

    The longer they’re packed, the more they are compressed and it takes a little while for those shapes to return.

  2. John Kirby:

    We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

  3. Dang Quang Dat:

    This morning we were able to send compressed air for them to breathe, but this afternoon there's no compressed air anymore because all the tubes were blocked.

  4. Ann Flagg:

    It's certainly a compressed process with a high degree of urgency behind it.

  5. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:

    I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

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