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What does compress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word compress? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
  2. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
  3. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
  4. (transitive) To abridge.
  5. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
Noun
  1. A 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.
  2. A machine for compressing
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