compressとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kəmprĕs', IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɹɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

動詞

compress (三人称単数 現在形 compresses, 現在分詞 compressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 compressed)

1. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

   The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.

   • June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument

     events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life

   • 1810, William Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny

     The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.

2. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

   Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel

3. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.

   This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.

4. (transitive) To abridge.

   If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.

5. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
6. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
   • 1727, Alexander Pope, Metamorphoses

     This Nymph compress'd by him who rules the day,
     Whom Delphi and the Delian isle obey,
     Andræmon lov'd; and , bless'd in all those charms
     That pleas'd a God, succeeded to her arms

同意語

• (press together): compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze; see also Thesaurus:compress
• (be pressed together): contract
• (condense, abridge): abridge, condense, shorten, truncate; see also Thesaurus:shorten

反意語

• (press together): expand
• (be pressed together): decontract
• (condense, abridge): expand, lengthen
• (make computing data smaller): uncompress

派生語

関連する語

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語源 2

From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpɹɛs/
• (米国用法) enPR: kŏm'prĕs, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpɹɛs/

名詞

compress (複数形 compresses)

2. 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.

   He held a cold compress over the sprain.

3. A machine for compressing.

関連する語

• compression