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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. Sonalie Figueiras:

    In the US, you've had this sort of wellness and health scene for years now with Whole Foods and the yoga movement, paleo and crossfit, in Hong Kong for instance, all of that 10 years is compressed into one and a half years. It's just been an astronomical shift here. Anywhere that you have a concentration of Type-A, highly educated, very well traveled people you get this focus on self-improvement.

  2. Mary Baker Eddy:

    Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

  3. Gary Newman:

    We certainly did n’t go into the season thinking that we needed to make a tonal shift, even last year when ‘ Last Man ’ was canceled, we really looked for an opportunity to move it to our schedule and we just did n’t have the right show to pair it with. We did n’t have the right opportunity. It was a really compressed time when it was canceled at the very end in May. We were emboldened by the response we saw on ‘ Roseanne. ’ We saw it as an opportunity to pair those two shows together on Friday night.

  4. Nick Read:

    Twelve months back we had a good degree of headroom, by November we had sufficient headroom, and the headroom has been compressed in the last six months.

  5. Vladimir Airapetian:

    In our paper, we have shown that a super Carrington-type CME event would have greatly compressed the magnetic field, this would ignite huge electric currents on Earth and let energetic particles penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere and surface.

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