English-Portuguese translations for compression

• compressão
  Agora essa compressão alarga-se à ajuda alimentar, à cooperação com a América Latina, aos Balcãs e ao Programa MEDA. This compression of funds is now being extended to food aid, to cooperation with Latin America, the Balkans and to the MEDA Programme.
  A Comissão propôs uma redução de 60% das emissões de partículas e uma redução de 80% dos óxidos de azoto para os motores de ignição por compressão. The Commission has proposed a 60% reduction in particulate emissions and an 80% reduction in nitrogen oxides for compression ignition engines.
• compactação

Definition of compression

• An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction
• The process by which data is compressed
• The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled

Related words

• decompression
• precompression
• thermocompression
• compression ratio
• decompression sickness
• compression sock
• compression ignition engine
• compression bandage
• compression-ignition engine