English-Italian translations for compress

  • compressa
  • comprimereQualunque tentativo di comprimere questa tempistica genererà una spirale dei costi - se non proprio ai livelli di cui parla l'onorevole Jackson. Any attempt to compress this time will result in spiralling costs - if not quite as much as Mrs Jackson says. Questo è completamente assurdo: talvolta significa in pratica dovere comprimere in soli quattro anni attività previste per un quinquennio.This is completely preposterous. It sometimes means having to compress work intended to take five years into four years in practice.

Definition of compress

  • To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume
  • To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format
  • To condense into a more economic, easier format
  • To abridge
  • To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits
  • A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury
  • A machine for compressing

Examples

  • The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  • Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  • He held a cold compress over the sprain.

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