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compression

noun as in condensation

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They’re great options for people who are advised to wear compression socks all the time, as they can work with many shoe types and across seasons.

In simulations and experiments, they saw the bio-inspired lattice withstand the most stress — first from compression in one direction, and then from opposing pressures at three points in another test — before breaking.

When comparing each runner’s highest-deviation shoe to his or her lowest-deviating shoe, the high-deviating shoe produced significantly greater cartilage compression in the medial-tibial area of the knee joint.

Don’t forget to also check on compression, caching, and, importantly, image file sizes.

One of the most promising so far, Silver said, is video compression, where there are many different ways to compress a video signal, but no clear rules about which one is best for different kinds of video.

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“Indeed, what had it gotten us, this violent compression of politics and celebrity and moral policing,” Bai writes.

For example, bodies recovered from Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the south Atlantic revealed severe spinal compression.

AT T also sold another one of his projects,  DjVu, an image compression technology which he thinks could have competed with PDF.

A short-story writer (his “The Evils of Spain” could be read along with this book), Pritchett was a master of compression.

Allen Guelzo's new history of the civil war, Fateful Lightning, is a masterpiece of compression.

Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.

This compression will be vastly increased through the simultaneous opening of the eight circular speaking ports SP.

In the experiment with the cylinder above described, the compression is due to mechanical energy, a force of another nature.

The concrete not only affords much of the strength to resist compression, but effectively protects the steel from corrosion.

For masonry, brick or concrete the arch subjected throughout to compression is the most natural form.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compression, such as: squeezing, and confining.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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