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adjective
- 1. flattened by pressure; squeezed or pressed together: "compressed gas"
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The meaning of COMPRESSED is pressed together : reduced in size or volume (as by pressure). How to use compressed in a sentence.
Compress means to press something into a smaller space, to make information shorter, or to make a computer file use less space. Learn more about the verb and noun forms, synonyms, and usage examples of compress.
Compressed is the past tense and past participle of compress, which means to press something into a smaller space. Learn how to use compressed in different contexts, such as compressing information, air, or computer files, with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
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.
Compress means to press something into a smaller space, to make information shorter, or to make a computer file use less space. Learn more about the verb and noun forms, synonyms, and usage examples from Cambridge Dictionary.
verb. com· press kəm-ˈpres. compressed; compressing; compresses. Synonyms of compress. transitive verb. 1. : to press or squeeze together. 2. : to reduce in size, quantity, or volume as if by squeezing. compress a computer file. intransitive verb. : to undergo compression. compress. 2 of 2. noun. com· press ˈkäm-ˌpres. 1.
