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Compression definitions vary slightly by the discipline in which it is used. Below are some examples:

  • Compression (zoology), the ability of an animal to reduce its body size or parts of its body.
  • Compression (gas), raising the pressure and reducing the volume of gases.
  • Compression (geology), decreasing the volume of rocks or rock layers by increased pressure.
  • Compression (data), encoding digital information through the process of using fewer bits.
  • Compression (audio), the reduction in storage size of digital audio streams and files
  • Compression (bandwidth), the process of reducing the time to transmit or the amount of bandwidth necessary to make a transmission.

Generally, it is the process of making something smaller, typically by means of increasing pressure or through data encoding.

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