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Look up compressionor compressor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Compression may refer to:

In physical science:

Physical compression, the result of the subjection of a material to compressive stress

Compression member, a class of structural elements, of which a column is the most common specific example

Compressibility, a measure of volume change resulting from pressure, the reciprocal of the bulk modulus

Gas compression, raising the pressure and reducing the volume of gases

Compression ratio, a figure of merit for an internal-combustion engine

Compression (geology), a system of forces that tend to decrease the volume of or shorten rocks

In information science:

Data compression, the process of encoding digital information using fewer bits

Audio compression (data), the compression of digital audio streams and files

Bandwidth compression, a reduction in either the time to transmit or in the amount of bandwidth required to transmit

Compression artifact, noticeable defects in audio or video that has been compressed

Image compression, the application of data compression on digital images

Video compression, the compression of digital video streams and files

Dynamic range compression, a compression process that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal

Gain compression, in electronic amplifiers, a reduction in differential or slope gain resulting from device non-linearity

In medicine:

Brain compression, a potentially fatal condition where pressure is exerted on the brain by internal bleeding

Compression bandage, a bandage that uses compression to reduce the flow of blood

In mathematics:

Compression (functional analysis), the compression of a linear operator "T" on a Hilbert space to a subspace "K" is the operator

Other:

Compression (phonetics), running syllables together in informal speech

See also

Compaction (disambiguation)

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Compression shorts

Compressor (disambiguation)

Decompression (disambiguation)

Expansion (disambiguation)

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