1) Applying pressure 2) Canadian mountain 3) Compaction 4) Concentration 5) Concretion 6) Continuum mechanic 7) Densification 8) French word used in English 9) Mount of North America 10) Mountain of North America 11) Mountain in North America 12) Mount of Canada 13) Mountain of Canada 14) Mountain in Canada
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1) Coarctation 2) Compaction 3) Compressing 4) Concentration 5) Condensing 6) Densification 7) Density 8) Squeeze 9) Squeezing 10) Uncompression
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- an increase in the density of something
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
- applying pressure
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• (n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
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A pressing or squeezing together. In medicine, it can describe a structure, such as a tumor, that presses on another part of the body, such as a nerve. It can also describe the flattening of soft tissue, such as the breast, that occurs during a mammogram (x-ray of the breast).
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1. The act of pressing together. As in a compression fracture , nerve compression , or spinal cord compression.
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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.
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(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.
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A force tending to compress or reduce something.
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(kәm-presh´әn) the act of pressing upon or together; the state of being pressed together. in embryology, the shortening or omission of certain developmental stages. the flattening of soft tissue to improve optical density in radiographic procedures such as mammography.
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- Reducing the size of a file for electronic storage. See also JPEG.
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- Squeezing a file (or an image) into a more efficient form to reduce the amount of storage space required.
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A state or condition of being pushed or shortened by a force
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Stress that reduces the volume or length of a rock, as that produced by the convergence of plate margins.
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(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.
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A method of reducing the size of files or programs so that they can be downloaded or distributed more easily.
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Com·pres'sion noun [ Latin
compressio : confer French
compression .] The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. '
Compression of thought.'
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A system of stresses that tends to reduce the volume of or shorten a substance.
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Fossil formed when an organism is flattened (compressed) and a thin film of organic material from its body is left in the rock.
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condensation noun the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; `the contraction of a gas on cooling`
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A condition caused by the action of squeezing or shortening of a component.
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(physics) Region of a sound wave where the particles of the medium through which it is travelling have been pushed close together, initially by the vibrating object that is the source of the sound. Sound waves consist of alternate regions of compressions and rarefactions travelling away from t...
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A Digital photograph creates an image file that is enormous. To enable image files to become smaller and more manageable cameras employ some form of compression such as JPEG. RAW and TIFF files have no compression and take up more space.
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1. An increase in density and pressure in a medium, such as air, caused intermittently by the passag
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A method of electronically reducing the number of bits required to store or transmit data within a s
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