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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

These mathematical structures compress the information contained in a wave function so that it can be handled more efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Eventually, all these materials wind up at one of four baling machines that compress them into giant blocks, which then get moved around the facility’s storage area by crew-operated forklifts.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

This has caused the index’s forward price-to-earnings ratio to compress by more than 4%.

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

He ripped off the compress, applied a fresh one, and told me to clamp it in place with my fingers.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

"Tessera compresses loads of that data and gives us really easy-to-use maps of the UK, where we can ask really specific questions about things we can see from space."

From BBC May 18, 2026

"J1007+3540 is one of the clearest and most spectacular examples of episodic AGN with jet-cluster interaction, where the surrounding hot gas bends, compresses, and distorts the jets," Dr. Pal explained.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2026

TurboQuant compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory storing mid-conversation computations.

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

They vary somewhat, but most are on an abysmal scale of 1:100,000, which ludicrously compresses every kilometer of real world into a mere centimeter of map.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Martinez noted that Goldman now trades on just 13 times 2027 earnings, its multiple having compressed from 15 times before the second-quarter release.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

The team found that the tin telluride film is compressed by the underlying substrate, creating strain that is essential for stabilizing the material's topological state.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Maine Democrats now face a more immediate problem: naming a nominee by late July through a compressed state party process.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

Underneath the high pressure system sinking air compressed and warmed, lifting temperatures day by day.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

The food particles compressed to less than half their original size, but the oil was barely affected at all.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

While the force between individual atoms is weak, it becomes remarkably strong across the large surface area of two dimensional materials, pulling the sheets together and compressing the water trapped between them.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

A ramjet External link uses an aircraft’s speed to “ram” air into the engine, compressing it in the process.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

Transformer supply could normalize if manufacturing capacity expands, compressing margins for equipment suppliers.

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

The mathematics are proprietary, but Hassibi said the effect was much like compressing a digital photograph without losing visual fidelity.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien




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