compression

An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.

Noun

  1. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
  2. The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
  3. The process by which data is compressed.
    • Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that...
  4. The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
  5. The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō, equivalent to compress + -ion.

Forms

compressions

Antonyms

decompression rarefaction

Derived

age compression aortocaval compression syndrome companding compansion compressional compression fracture compressionless compression pump compression ratio compression release compression set compression shorts compression sock compression wave compression wood cryocompression data compression effective compression electrocompression globe of compression microcompression New York compression noncompression overcompression