An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
The process by which data is compressed.
The process of developing; growth, directed change.
A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
The expression of a function in the form of a series.
The building of such a project.
Something which has developed.
The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.