meaning of deflate

1. To reduce from an inflated condition.
2. deflate format, compression> A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others. Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. Used as a verb to mean to compress not decompress! a file which has been compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, inflate, means to decompress data which has been deflated. Deflate is described in RFC 1951.
3. become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons ">deflated"

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