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.
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 reveal.
To undo a folding.
To release from a fold or pen.
To turn out; to happen; to develop.
To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.
In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.