Compression
[kəm'preʃ(ə)n] or [kəm'prɛʃən]
解释:
(noun.) applying pressure.
(noun.) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required.
(noun.) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; 'the contraction of a gas on cooling'.
整理:莱斯利--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Condensation, pressing together.[2]. Brevity, terseness, succinctness, pithiness.
校对:拉弗尔斯
例句:
- Georgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Absorption and Compression Methods Described. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Agricultural methods also have been modified by the compression pump. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- When bicycle tires are being inflated, the pump becomes hot because of the compression of the air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Means for so holding the material under compression appear to have been first invented and patented by Hamilton of America in 1874. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Vaporisation, absorption, compression or reduction of atmospheric pressure are the principal methods of producing cold. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In many cases the combined use of both exhaust and compression pumps is necessary to secure the desired result; as, for example, in pneumatic dispatch tubes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Compression pumps have eliminated this difficulty, and to-day fresh air is constantly pumped into the mines to supply the laborers there. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Hutton thought that t he compression under which the subterranean heat had been applied was a factor in the solution of these problems. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Fig. 296[5] shows the compression pumps, and Fig. 297 the floor tanks, of such a system. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The defects found in gas engines thus far were want of proper preliminary compression, then in complete expansion, and finally loss of heat through the walls. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This is suggested by flame, simmering liquids, the excitement of heat by motion, the extinction of fire by compression, etc. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Another and very different use to which pumps are put is seen in the compression of gases. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- A compression pump forces air through a tube into the chamber in which men are to work (Fig. 146). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
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