compressing
/kəmˈpɹɛsɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- To abridge.
- To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- To embrace sexually.
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