compress

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

   “The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.”

2. fiil To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

   “Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel”

3. fiil To condense into a more economic, easier format.

   “This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.”

4. fiil To abridge.

   “If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.”

5. fiil To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

   “The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.”

6. fiil To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.

   “Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]”

7. fiil To embrace sexually.

   “This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms.”

8. isim A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

   “He held a cold compress over the sprain.”

9. isim A machine for compressing.