compress

1. To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. (transitive) · The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
2. To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format. (intransitive) · Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
3. To condense into a more economic, easier format. (transitive) · This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
4. To abridge. (transitive) · If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
5. To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits. (transitive)
6. To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it. (transitive)

He/she/it compresses · Geçmiş zaman compressed · Üçüncü hâl (past participle) compressed · -ing biçimi compressing