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.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
To abridge.
If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To embrace sexually.
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.
A machine for compressing