Meaning of compress in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

  Example: The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.

• To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

  Example: Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel

• To condense into a more economic, easier format.

  Example: This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.

• To abridge.

  Example: If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.

• To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

• To embrace sexually.

noun

• A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

  Example: He held a cold compress over the sprain.

• A machine for compressing