compress : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: compress	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for compress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
compress n a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) v make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" Synonym(s): compress, compact, pack together Antonym(s): decompress, uncompress squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" Synonym(s): compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compress \Com"press\, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compress \Compress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compressed}; p. pr & vb. n. {Compressing}.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.] 1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress* air or water. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. --D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. --Melmoth. 2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope. Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
compress [Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to {crunch}ing of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost et al. and widely circulated via {Usenet}; use of {crunch} itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in "A Technique for High Performance Data Compression", Terry A. Welch, "IEEE Computer", vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
compress 1. To feed data through any {compression} {algorithm}. 2. The {Unix} program "compress", now largely supplanted by {gzip}. Unix compress was written in {C} by Joseph M. Orost, James A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via {Usenet}. It uses the {Lempel-Ziv Welch} {algorithm} and normally produces files with the suffix ".Z". Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs, ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an implementation-dependent maximum is reached. After every 10 {kilobytes} of input the compression ratio is checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is discarded and information is collected from scratch.