compress

compress antonyms

compress definitions

verb
  • To abridge. 

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

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

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

  • To condense into a more economic, easier format. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A machine for compressing.