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compress

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1. compress - Noun

2. compress - Verb

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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

To embrace sexually.

A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

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she compressed her lips Source: Internet

the spasm contracted the muscle Source: Internet

compress the data Source: Internet

According to the Lawson criterion, the amount of energy needed to heat the D-T fuel to break-even conditions at ambient pressure is perhaps 100 times greater than the energy needed to compress it to a pressure that would deliver the same rate of fusion. Source: Internet

Abstract, introspective answers to these questions can theoretically compress large amounts of facts into relatively few principles. Source: Internet

2D+Delta Encoding techniques utilize H.264 and MPEG-2 compatible coding and can use motion compensation to compress between stereoscopic images. Source: Internet

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