Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Pressed together or into less volume or space.
- adj. Biology Flattened, especially laterally or lengthwise, as certain leafstalks or the bodies of many fishes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pressed into narrow compass; condensed; especially, flattened laterally or lengthwise; having the two opposite sides flattened or plane. Specifically— In zoology: Pressed together from side to side, and therefore narrower than high: as, the compressed body of a fish; a compressed bill of a bird: opposed to depressed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pressed tightly together.
- adj. Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of compress.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
- adj. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pressed tightly together
- adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- adj. reduced in volume by pressure
Examples
“Spunnels" in the public's jargon, came into being, the term compressed from the phrase "hyperspace tunnels," a universal phenomenon once suspected and eventually confirmed.”
“The other lab-experiment dessert utilizes what they call compressed fruit, which to me looks like cantaloupe and honeydew cubes with cold melon soup and a few flowers in a cool asymmetrical bowl.”
“A long time ago I was thinking about compression methods and had thoughts along the same lines, trying to consider at what point it became more practical to assign everything a reference number rather than storing the image itself in compressed form.”
“The cartridge can also transfer the data at a high speed of 72 MB/s in compressed mode.”
“(Yes, air often is acquired and used without involving commerce, but it is sometimes bought and sold, especially in compressed form.)”
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“It was also notable for lasting 11 seasons while the Korean War lasted less than 3 years, so the passage of time on the show was heavily compressed from the "one week per episode" formula you usually see.”
“Each breast is essentially a heavy-duty balloon with a built in compressed air cartridge.”
“Seattle Bon Vivant recommends Le Palais des Thés green teas (packaged, in compressed tea blocks or loose in beautiful pots).”
“[GridIron] published test results indicate that a 60 second NTSC broadcast was compressed from a raw file size of 923 Mbytes to an MPEG4 encoded file of 13 Mbytes — a 98.75% reduction in size.”
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“Eagle Base has five smaller outposts, which offer much the same view in compressed form.”
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Interesting words
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Packed (spatially)
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Narrow (adjective)
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