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What does decompress mean?

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  1. (transitive) To relieve the pressure or compression on something.
  2. (transitive) To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  3. (computing) To restore (compressed data) to its original form.
  4. (intransitive) To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  5. (intransitive, informal) To relax.
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You can of course decompress them and burn them to CD, and get the best sound quality that you're going to get.
Knowing how to compress and decompress an archived file is essential, especially in today's world of online computing.
The bark of seals drowns out the din of the city you left behind, and at night, the canal's placid silence is just what you need to decompress.
The next step is to decompress the Administrative Update into a folder on your hard drive.
It will help you decompress and establish boundaries between work and play.
He was started on intravenous antibiotics and underwent external frontal sinusotomy to decompress the adjacent infected frontal sinus.

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