Meaning & use
compression
The act or process of pressing something into a smaller space, or reducing the size of data.
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The engineer explained how compression of the gas increases both its pressure and temperature.
File compression allowed the team to send the large video over email.
A note on using this word
In computing, compression can be lossless, preserving all original data, or lossy, discarding some detail to save space.
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