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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Compress \Com"press\, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.)
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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Compress \Com*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compressed; p. pr &
vb. n. Compressing.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to
compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]
1. 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.
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Events of centuries . . . compressed within the
compass of a single life. --D. Webster.
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The same strength of expression, though more
compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
--Melmoth.
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2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.
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3. (Computers) to reduce the space required for storage (of
binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a
smaller number of bits while preserving the information
content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to
recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
[PJC]

Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
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WordNet compress
n : a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied
firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or
reduce fever)
v 1: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the
data" [syn: compact, pack together] [ant: decompress]
2: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the
spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: constrict, squeeze,
compact, contract, press]

Moby Dictionary
Ace bandage , Band-Aid , abbreviate , abridge , abstract ,
adhesive tape , application , band , bandage , bandaging , bear , binder ,
bob , boil down , brace , capsulize , cast , cataplasm , circumscribe ,
clamp , clip , coarct , compact , concentrate , condense , congest ,
consolidate , constrict , constringe , contract , cotton ,
court plaster , cram , cramp , cravat , crop , crowd , crush , curtail ,
cut , cut back , cut down , cut off short , cut short , damp , dampen ,
decrease , deduct , deflate , densen , densify , depreciate , depress ,
diminish , dock , downgrade , draw , draw in , draw together , dressing ,
elastic bandage , elide , ensphere , epithem , epitomize , foreshorten ,
four-tailed bandage , gauze , jam , knit , lessen , lint , lower , mow ,
narrow , nip , pare , pinch , plaster , plaster cast , pledget , poll ,
pollard , poultice , press , prune , pucker , pucker up , purse , push ,
ram down , reap , recap , recapitulate , reduce , retrench , roll back ,
roller , roller bandage , rubber bandage , scale down , shave , shear ,
shorten , shrink , simplify , sling , snub , solidify , splint , sponge ,
squab , squash , squeeze , squish , step down , strangle , strangulate ,
stunt , stupe , sum up , summarize , synopsize , take from , take in ,
tampon , tape , telescope , tent , tighten , tourniquet ,
triangular bandage , trim , truncate , tune down , tweak , wad up ,
wrinkle

Jargon compress [Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to
crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression
by Joseph M. Orost et al. and widely circulated via Usenet; use of
crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers. Specifically,
compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in
"A Technique for High Performance Data Compression", Terry A. Welch,
"IEEE Computer", vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.

FOLDOC compress

1. To feed data through any compression algorithm.

2. The Unix program "compress", now largely
supplanted by gzip.

Unix compress was written in C by Joseph M. Orost, James
A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via Usenet. It
uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch algorithm and normally produces
files with the suffix ".Z".

Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit
codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs,
ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an
implementation-dependent maximum is reached.

After every 10 kilobytes of input the compression ratio is
checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is
discarded and information is collected from scratch.