Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation


Look up: Compression


  1. compression
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kom-presh′ŭn Definitions: 1. A squeezing together; the exertion of pressure on a body in such a way as to tend to increase its density; the decrease in a dimension of a body under the action of two external forces directed toward one another in the same straight ...
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=19553

  2. Compression
    [geology] In geology the term compression refers to a set of stresses directed toward the center of a rock mass. Compressive strength refers to the maximum compressive stress that can be applied to a material before failure occurs. When the maximum compressive stress is in a horizontal orien...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_(geology)

  3. compression
    Fossil formed when an organism is flattened (compressed) and a thin film of organic material from its body is left in the rock.
    Found op http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary_2.html

  4. Compression
    A technique to reduce the size of a file in order to make it more manageable and quicker to download. Compressed files have to be extracted using a utility such as PKZip or WinZip. Such files usually have a .zip extension.
    Found op http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/glo-1.htm

  5. Compression
    To reduce in size, details ...
    Found op http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/c/index.htm

  6. Compression
    A process that uses an algorithm to reduce data volume while preserving the original data content. Compression is used to reduce the time required to send and receive data over a network, and to enable the recording of more data onto a memory card or other storage medium.
    Found op http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Technology/0-9/217724/index.html

  7. compression
    [n] - the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together 2. [n] - encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required 3. [n] - applying pressure
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=compression

  8. compression
    using an algorithm to decrease the number of bits of user data to be transmitted, thereby increasing the efficiency of a communications channel. A related algorithm will expand the data back to its original form when it is received. In data communications compression is usually lossless, the origina...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  9. Compression
    Means of reducing stored image file sizes. Commonly used in DIP systems where the bit-map image for an A4 page is typically reduced to around 40KByte, but also used for program and data files in order to increase disk capacity. Decompression is the process which restores files to their original stat...
    Found op http://www.doconsite.co.uk/directorypages/Reference/Glossary.htm

  10. Compression
    (Digital cameras and photo printers) Data may be compressed to reduce storage (memory) space or transmission times (= reducing the amount of data). Well-known compression standards include JPEG and MPEG.
    Found op http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_1010.htm

  11. compression
    many image files, both still and movie, can be greatly reduced in size using compression. Lossless compression gets rid of redundancy but leaves the image pristine. Lossy compression reduces the size of images by throwing away information that the eye should not miss. Done badly, lossy compression c...
    Found op http://www.animationpost.co.uk/doping/glossary.htm

  12. Compression
    Compression in audio recording means to reduce the dynamic range of a signal
    Found op http://www.musiconmypc.co.uk/art_glossary.php



  1. Compression
    A force tending to compress or reduce something.
    Found op http://www.testometric.co.uk/glossarya-d.html

  2. Compression
    The raw 'bit image' delivered by a scanner to a computer is extremely large and wasteful of storage and transmission capacity. Coding algorithms and systems have been devised to compress the image, e.g. by making use of the fact that most documents have many 'white' or single tone areas. Decompressi...
    Found op http://www.isomatic.co.uk/WBGlossary.htm

  3. Compression
    Squashing or forcing an object onto itself – usually making it take up less space. Compression of the spine occurs when the bone of the vertebrae are pushed closer together during injury.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20560

  4. Compression
    Compression expresses the given picture will less data and compression rate alone does not give an indication of final picture quality. It is necessary to compress the data in order to store and transmit digital television data using an economical amount of bandwidth. Different rates of compression ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  5. compression
    The main way that digital can offer more channels is by compressing the signal. A lame example, but say you have a row of pixels that are all blue... You can either say: a blue pixel, a blue pixel, a blue pixel, a blue pixel, a blue pixel (etc...635 times more!) which is wasteful (and how analogue w...
    Found op http://www.heyrick.co.uk/ricksworld/digibox/glossary.html

  6. Compression
    A technique for reducing the quantity of data required to make up a digital image. Compression techniques can be non-destructive (‘lossless`) or destructive (‘lossy`), in which part of the data set is discarded permanently. Converting still images into JPEG format is one example of lossy...
    Found op http://www.computerarts.co.uk/downloads/3d__and__animation/the_3d_world_glo

  7. Compression
    The act of pressing together. It can result in deformation (as in shortening a spring) and improvement in, or creation of, stability. Compression is used (1) to provide absolute stability of fracture fixation, where indicated, and (2) to protect the fixation implants and to improve their efficiency ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20605

  8. Compression
    Axial force tending to shorten the member.
    Found op http://www.corusconstruction.com/en/design_guidance/the_blue_book/

  9. compression
    (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Bridges) Any force that acts in order to shorten, or push together the ends of, a structural element. When pushing your hands together, your arms will be under compression. The towers of a suspension bridge, and the piers of an arch bridge, are under compression.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  10. Compression
    Broadly in two forms - 'lossy' and 'losless'. JPEG is a lossy compression format; it discards information on a sliding scale of size v. quality. With size over quality the image pixelates. Each time it is compressed it throws away more data. Lossless compression - GIF (Graphics Image Interchange) fo...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20829

  11. Compression
    Compression: 1. The act of pressing together. As in a compression fracture, nerve compression, or spinal cord compression. 2. To shorten in time. In embryology, there may be compression of development with some stages even omitted.
    Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=39885

  12. Compression
    The process of reducing the size of a digital file, usually through software. This speeds processing, transmission time and reduces storage requirements.
    Found op http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%20glossary/rods%20photographic%20gl

  13. Compression
    Many projectors are able to display higher resolutions than they actually have by skipping lines and columns. As this affects the picture quality, several manufacturers have developed special compression methods, which actually compress with only the slightest loss of information.
    Found op http://www.medium.co.uk/public/sales/glossaryc.html

Tip: double click on a word to show its meaning.

No exact matches found.

Search

Typ a word and hit `Search`.
Tools
Conjugate
Synonyms
Google

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
• Ambergris (12)
• Fault Close Rating (1)
• Terrell (3)
• agoraphobia (19)
• Turn Construction Unit (1)
• Decapolis (5)
• Oil (25)
• Vibrio furnissii (2)
• appointor (2)
• cyclopenta phenanthren (2)
• Churidar (3)
• Sphaerosporella (1)
• Engin Bekdemir (1)
• Doodia media (1)
• shinsei (4)
• Uramil (2)
• Tamia (4)
• umbrella plant (7)
• dystonic (4)
• Amarillo (7)
• Etappen system (1)
• Covariance (16)
• Zaphrentis (3)
• Tomoe nage (1)
© Encyclo MMXII | Contact | Privacy