compressverb詞源 1/kəmˈpɹɛs/

• 1

  To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

  • The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  • events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life
• 2

  To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

  • Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
• 3

  To condense into a more economic, easier format.

  • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
• 4

  To abridge.

  • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
• 5

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

  • The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.
• 6

  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.

  • Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]
• 7

  obsoleteTo embrace sexually.

  • This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms.

compressnoun詞源 2/ˈkɒmpɹɛs/

• 1

  medicinesciencesA multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

  • He held a cold compress over the sprain.
• 2

  A machine for compressing.