that has been violently compressed
to compress the volume of something
a machine used for compressing gas, called a centrifugal compressor
(of gas) the process of compression
a chamber for compressed air
a machine used to compress gas or air
in civil engineering, a phenomenon in which a supporting structure fails under compressive stress greater than its elastic limit, called buckling
a device that compresses air to a level greater than atmospheric pressure
a drill that uses compressed air as its driving force
The gas was compressed into a gas cylinder.