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What does decompress mean?

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

Verb
  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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They should have had time, as they did, to go through debriefings, to decompress, to get the information to the debriefers that was necessary.
The time it takes to compress, send, decompress and display a file is called latency.
Knowing how to compress and decompress an archived file is essential, especially in today's world of online computing.
He was started on intravenous antibiotics and underwent external frontal sinusotomy to decompress the adjacent infected frontal sinus.
The next step is to decompress the Administrative Update into a folder on your hard drive.
Doria divers have been swept off the anchorline used to reach the wreck or misjudged their breathing gas supply and run out or failed to properly decompress on the ascent.

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