Meaning & use
Compressed
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Pressed or squeezed together tightly; reduced in size, duration, or volume, often through force or a digital process.
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The compressed air canister can be used to clean dust from a keyboard.
She sent the photos as a compressed file to save space in the email.
A note on using this word
In computing, 'compressed' commonly describes files reduced in size using algorithms like ZIP, while in physics it describes matter under pressure.
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