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
Originally I used a can of compressed air to clean mushrooms that we had harvested. They were sandy and I needed a way to clean them out, so then I was thinking of other ways to use compressed air in the kitchen.
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.
Being able to take the time, to get to know founders, to evaluate companies, to do due diligence – these things are harder in compressed time frame markets like the one we are in now, a deflation, of valuations and market conditions, would ease that pressure.
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 human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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