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Data compression

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compressionnounAn increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
compressornounA machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.
decompactornoun(computing) A program or algorithm for decompressing data.
compandingnoun(electronics) A process in which noise in a signal is reduced by selective compression and expansion
compression rationoun(computing) The ratio of the size of compressed data to the size of the original uncompressed data.
decompression bombnoun(computing) A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a large amount of memory and disk space when decompressed.
minificationnoun(computing) The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
deduplicationnoun(computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
supercompressionnounExtreme compression.
digitizationnoun(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.
packernounA person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
narrowing conversionnoun(programming) A conversion from one data type to another where the new data type’s size is smaller than the old one’s, such that the conversion may result in loss of information.
optimizationnounThe design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
selective compressionnounA process in modelbuilding, in which bulky and/or repetitious elements of the prototype being modeled are omitted, in order to capture the important details in a smaller-than-scale model.
minifiernoun(computing) A program that minifies, or removes unnecessary characters to make a document smaller.
decrementernoun(computing) Any device or circuit that carries out a decrementation operation
chain codenoun(computing) A program that compresses a monochrome image
depackernoun(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.
huffman codingnoun(computing theory) An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store).
codecnoun(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

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