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発音

• IPA^(key): /kɒm.pɹɛʃ.ən/
• 韻: -ɛʃən

名詞

compression (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 compressions)

1. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
2. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
3. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
   • 2011, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE‎^[1], retrieved 2012-09-26:

     Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials かつ Methods).

4. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
5. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

反意語

• decompression
• rarefaction

派生語

参照

• Compression in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)