To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To abridge.
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.
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.
To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.