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What does compressing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of compress
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She was hospitalized with respiratory distress due to mediastinal masses compressing the airway.
Sound waves propagate through such materials by periodically compressing and rarefying the medium.
Atrac works by splitting the sound signal into separate frequency bands and compressing them separately.
As the siren moves toward you, it is catching up to and compressing the sound waves it produces, thus the higher pitch.
These act as a giant poultice, drawing toxins out from the skin, compressing and compacting the soft tissue.
His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.

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