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Compression may refer to:
Physical science
- Compression (physics), the result of the subjection of a material to compressive stress
- Compression member, a class of structural elements, of which a column is the most common specific example
- Compressibility, a measure of volume change resulting from pressure
- Gas compression, raising the pressure and reducing the volume of gases
- Compression ratio, a figure of merit of an internal-combustion engine
- Compression (geology), a system of forces that tend to decrease the volume of rocks
Information science
- Data compression, the process of encoding digital information using fewer bits
- Audio compression (data), the compression of digital audio streams and files
- Bandwidth compression, a reduction in either the time to transmit or in the amount of bandwidth required to transmit
- Compression artifact, noticeable defects in audio or video that has been compressed
- Image compression, the application of data compression on digital images
- Video compression, the compression of digital video streams and files
- One-way compression function, a cryptographic primitive
- Dynamic range compression, a compression process that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal
Medicine
- Brain compression, a potentially fatal condition where pressure is exerted on the brain by internal bleeding
- Compression bandage, a bandage that uses compression to reduce the flow of blood
- Compression in pyelography, pressing on the lower abdominal area in intravenous pyelogram
- Condensation (psychology) in Freudian psychology
- Cold compression therapy, to alleviate the pain of minor injuries
Other
- Gain compression, in electronic amplifiers, a reduction in differential or slope gain resulting from device non-linearity
- Compression (functional analysis), the restriction of an operator on a Hilbert space to a subspace, obtained by orthogonal projection
- Compression (phonetics), running syllables together in informal speech
- Compression (zoology), when an animal (or part of) is smaller compared with other animals in the same group, for example the Yellow jack
See also
- All pages beginning with "Compression"
- All pages with titles containing Compression
- Compaction (disambiguation)
- Compress
- Compression shorts
- Compressor (disambiguation)
- Decompression (disambiguation)
- Expansion (disambiguation)
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