Compression
[kəm'preʃ(ə)n] or [kəm'prɛʃən]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Condensation, pressing together.[2]. Brevity, terseness, succinctness, pithiness.
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Examples
- Georgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Absorption and Compression Methods Described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Agricultural methods also have been modified by the compression pump. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When bicycle tires are being inflated, the pump becomes hot because of the compression of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Means for so holding the material under compression appear to have been first invented and patented by Hamilton of America in 1874. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Vaporisation, absorption, compression or reduction of atmospheric pressure are the principal methods of producing cold. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Compression pumps have eliminated this difficulty, and to-day fresh air is constantly pumped into the mines to supply the laborers there. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hutton thought that t he compression under which the subterranean heat had been applied was a factor in the solution of these problems. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Fig. 296[5] shows the compression pumps, and Fig. 297 the floor tanks, of such a system. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This is suggested by flame, simmering liquids, the excitement of heat by motion, the extinction of fire by compression, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Another and very different use to which pumps are put is seen in the compression of gases. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A compression pump forces air through a tube into the chamber in which men are to work (Fig. 146). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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