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adjective
- 1. flattened by pressure; squeezed or pressed together: "compressed gas"
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verb [ T ] uk / kəmˈpres / us / kəmˈpres / to press something into a smaller space: Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure. compressed air. to make information, a piece of writing, etc. shorter: The course compresses two year's training into six intensive months.
The meaning of COMPRESSED is pressed together : reduced in size or volume (as by pressure). How to use compressed in a sentence.
to press something into a smaller space: Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure. compressed air. to make information, a piece of writing, etc. shorter: The course compresses two year's training into six intensive months. I managed to compress ten pages of notes into four paragraphs.
Compressed definition: pressed into less space; condensed. See examples of COMPRESSED used in a sentence.
to cause to become a solid mass: to compress cotton into bales. to condense, shorten, or abbreviate: The book was compressed by 50 pages. Computers. to reduce the storage space required for (data) by changing its format: The algorithm should compress the video file without losing any quality.
to press something into a smaller space: Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure. compressed air. to make information, a piece of writing, etc. shorter: The course compresses two year's training into six intensive months. I managed to compress ten pages of notes into four paragraphs.
1. : a folded cloth or pad applied so as to press upon a body part. 2. : a machine for compressing. Synonyms. Verb. capsule.
adj. 1. pressed into less space; condensed: compressed gases. 2. pressed together: compressed lips. 3. flattened by or as if by pressure: compressed wallboard. 4. Zool., Bot. flattened laterally. [1325–75] com•press′ed•ly, adv.
1. pressed together; made more compact by pressure. 2. Botany. flattened lengthwise, as the stalk of an aspen leaf. 3. Zoology. flattened into a thin, convex, streamlined shape, as the body of the flounder or other flatfish. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
com·press. (kəm-prĕs′) tr.v. com·pressed, com·press·ing, com·press·es. 1. To press together: compressed her lips. 2. To make more compact by or as if by pressing. 3. Computers To encode (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmittal: compressed the file so that it could be downloaded more quickly.
