What does compressed mean?
Definitions for compressed
kəmˈprɛstcom·pressed
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Princeton's WordNet
compressed, tightadjective
pressed tightly together
"with lips compressed"
compressedadjective
reduced in volume by pressure
"compressed air"
compressed, flatadjective
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Wiktionary
compressedadjective
Pressed tightly together.
compressedadjective
Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
ChatGPT
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
Compressed
of Compress
Compressedadjective
pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure
Compressedadjective
flattened lengthwise
Entomology
Compressed
flattened laterally.
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Anagrams for compressed »
decompress
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of compressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of compressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of compressed in a Sentence
They are constructed to last, as the years go on and each time the tree gets shaped, it may' expand' a little. It should still be able to be compressed enough to get back into the box.
The unnecessarily compressed execution schedule using the risky drug midazolam denies prisoners their right to be free from the risk of torture.
This is the equivalent of doing phases one, two and three of a typical clinical trial but all compressed into the May through October time frame.
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.
We wanted the signature to be the same regardless of the codec the video is being compressed with, if I take my video and convert it from, say, MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, then that file will be of a totally different length, and the bits will have completely changed, which will produce a different hash. What we needed was a content-aware hashing algorithm.
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