1compress sth (into sth) to make sth fill less space than usual 压缩:
Divers breathe compressed air from tanks.潜水员呼吸贮气罐里的压缩空气。He found it hard to compress his ideas into a single page.他发现很难把自己的想法扼要地写在一页纸上。
2 (computing计算机技术) to make computer files, etc smaller so that they use less space on a disk, etc 压缩(使计算机文档少占磁盘等的空间)
[OPP] decompress 反义词为decompress➔compression /kəmˈpreʃn ||; kəmˈprɛʃən/ noun [U]
compress/kəmˋprɛs; kəmˈpres/v [I,T] formal to press something or make something smaller so that it takes up less space or takes less time【正式】压紧﹔压缩 —compression /kəmˋprɛʃən; kəmˈpreʃ$n/n [U]