Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being forced or compressed into a smaller space or narrower compass; yielding to pressure; condensable: as, gases are compressible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
able to becompressed - adjective topology Containing a
circle that does not serve as theboundary of adisk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being easily compressed
- adjective capable of being compressed or made more compact
Etymologies
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Examples
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About mid-day the pulse has come down to 80; and though feeble and compressible, is a very respectable pulse.
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This suggests that some parts of the brain are more 'compressible' than others, he said.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Your other options are. tif,. gif and. png (among others), but most of the time you'll use. jpg files because they're compressible, meaning able to be shrunk and downloaded quicker.
Pollyticks 2009
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The file size (bitrate) will vary depending on how "compressible" your video is.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2008
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So, it is easier for chance the âfindâ one of the less compressible patterns, because there are more patterns with the same lower compressibility than there are patterns with the same higher compressibility — in the above case there are only 2 out of 1,073,741,824 patterns which have the highest compressibility and those two patterns are shown above in the repeating 1s and the repeating 0s.
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In this case K (T) as the Kolmogrov Complexity is used to calculate the number of specified patterns since the pattern is specified as a result of it being algorithmically compressible.
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Of course, when you "Download Your Information," it's still a cloud of bits and bytes, a compressible, zappable zip.
Claire Gordon: Download Your Life Claire Gordon 2010
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CJYman: The only difference is that you think, without providing any evidence to back up your assertions, that CSI is not clear and rigorous enoughâ ¦ FYI, a door opening and closing and represented as 101010101 can be described as law-like by a mathematical description of regularities (an algorithmically compressible pattern) and is thus ruled out of consideration.
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Of course, when you "Download Your Information," it's still a cloud of bits and bytes, a compressible, zappable zip.
Claire Gordon: Download Your Life Claire Gordon 2010
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In this case however, the average distribution is important since the pattern is specified as a result of it being algorithmically compressible (as a result of its digits 'average distribution).
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