meaning of compress

1. 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.
2. To embrace sexually.
3. A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc. , used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
4. compress 1. To feed data through any compression algorithm. 2. The Unix program "compress", now largely supplanted by gzip. Unix compress was written in C by Joseph M. Orost, James A. Woods et al. , and was widely circulated via Usenet. It uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch algorithm and normally produces files with the suffix ". Z". Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs, ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an implementation-dependent maximum is reached. After every 10 kilobytes of input the compression ratio is checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is discarded and information is collected from scratch. Compressed SLIP CSLIP VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
5. a cloth pad or dressing with or without medication applied firmly to some part of the body to relieve discomfort or reduce fever

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