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  • verb Present participle of compress.

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  • noun applying pressure

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Examples

  • If the boy was dead, the man would have done a more convincing job in compressing the chest.

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  • Noyes, Libby, and Davis succeed in compressing into a paragraph the lifetime of an individual, without sacrificing the details which make genealogy interesting.

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  • I see no impropriety either in compressing an idea in less than fourteen lines for simplicity or in lengthening it for perspicuity.

    Letter 85 1798

  • I'm actually fascinated by the idea of compressing my earthly belongings into the smallest possible space.

    What's the difference between living in a trailer... Ann Althouse 2007

  • I'm actually fascinated by the idea of compressing my earthly belongings into the smallest possible space.

    What's the difference between living in a trailer... Ann Althouse 2007

  • AVCHD was developed for consumers with the idea of compressing h. 264 video to the point it will fit on level 2-4 SD flash cards with reasonable record time.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • • He experiment with air and the idea of compressing it and invented the first air pump.

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  • We've got a really bad mix of a sandwich here, with Henriette and Felix just kind of compressing this area.

    CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 2007

  • You're using a word here called "compressing" that some audio files aren't used to hearing.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003 2003

  • "As virtual environments-and the inherent management complexities for managing these environments-grow, EMC continues to bring to market storage solutions and features such as compressing virtual machines, cloning virtual machines, and automating failback/failover to solve our customers 'challenges."

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