The verb is pronounced /kəmpres/. The noun is pronounced /kɒmpres/.
( compressed)
1.
When you compress something or when it compresses , it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
Poor posture, sitting or walking slouched over, compresses the body’s organs...
Air will compress but the brake fluid won’t.
VERB : V n , V
• com‧pres‧sion
The compression of the wood is easily achieved.
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2.
If you compress something such as a piece of writing or a description, you make it shorter.
All those three books are compacted and compressed into one book.
= condense
VERB : V n
3.
If an event is compressed into a short space of time, it is given less time to happen than normal or previously.
The four debates will be compressed into an unprecedentedly short eight-day period...
Some courses such as engineering had to be compressed.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed into n , be V-ed
4.
A compress is a pad of wet or dry cloth pressed on part of a patient’s body to reduce fever.
Sore throats may be relieved by cold compresses.
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