Crossword clues for compressed
compressed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compressed \Com*pressed"\, a.
Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
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(Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
Compressed-air engine, an engine operated by the elastic force of compressed air.
Compress \Com*press"\, 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.]
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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. To embrace sexually. [Obs.]
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(Computers) to reduce the space required for storage (of binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a smaller number of bits while preserving the information content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
Wiktionary
1 press tightly together. 2 flatten, especially when along its entire length. v
(en-past of: compress)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "compressed".
Its author had the instinct for the cryptographic jugular, and he compressed into 64 pages virtually the entire known field of cryptology, including polyalphabetics with mixed alphabets, enciphered code, and cipher devices.
Electrical power and compressed air and gas connections to the Archerfish also helped men inside the DDS conduct maintenance on the SDV.
That is to say, the throttle and the brake pedal must be arranged in a proximity to each other so when the brakes are fully compressed the brake pedal is still slightly higher and directly adjacent to the throttle.
Foreign figs are dried in the oven so as to destroy the larvae of the Cynips insect, and are then compressed into small boxes.
She was still dressed in her decontamination suit, but she was no longer wearing the helmet, the tank of compressed air, or the waste recycling unit.
The compressed air unit started up with a roar and the drills began to eat into the rock.
That plate on the front is a hundred-meter disk of compressed matter, electromagnetically stabilized.
The bone splattered, the ethmoidal sinus ruptured into the olfactory bulb, which meant Les Pruel could no longer smell anything, and the copper-pointed slug did a wing-ding puree of the cerebrum taking the top of his head off like an eggshell surrendering to compressed air.
He compressed his lips in gratitude and peered through his faceplate, looking delighted in a pious way.
The Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.
Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.
Eventually all the tiny foraminiferans and coccoliths and so on die and fall to the bottom of the sea, where they are compressed into limestone.
It comprehends all hermetics, all alchemy, it is nothing else than the receptacle, the well-guarded crystal retort wherein the material is compressed to its final transformation and purification.
He slipped the other arm under her and raised her hips for better accuracy, finally found the star and compressed it for the requisite length of time despite the continuation of her pelvic rotation, presumably a remnant of the recent orgasm.
He admitted to himself that he would have enjoyed killing the man, but in the end he backed off, bleeding the compressed air out of the hisser as he let the other man move along with the crowd, continuing his ponderous trek.