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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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