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- noun biochemistry The act or process of making something less
compact ; often specifically the reversal of previouscompaction
Etymologies
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de- + compaction
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Examples
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What's the impetus for -- it's easy to decompaction in liquids where you take out a lot of water, but what do you take out in the powder?
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Similarly, we may choose to add additional RAM or disks to servers at a later time, which would require physical decompaction of server racks if we left no slack in our power consumption calculations.
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