What does "compression" mean?

An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.

What is a synonym for "compression"?

Common synonyms include: compaction, abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, agglutination, apocope.

Pronounced //kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən//.

//kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

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An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction. countable, uncountable
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applying pressure wordnet
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The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed. countable, uncountable
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encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required wordnet
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The process by which data is compressed. countable, uncountable
"Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods)."

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the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together wordnet
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The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled. countable, uncountable
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an increase in the density of something wordnet
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The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form. countable, uncountable