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compress
  • (noun)
    1. A folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
      He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  • (verb)
    1. To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
      The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
    2. To condense or abridge.
      If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
    3. To make information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.