Compression
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Compression itself may refer to:
- Physical compression, the result of the subjection of a material to compressive stress
- Geology compression, a system of forces that tend to decrease the volume or shorten rocks.
- Compression arch suspended-deck bridge, a compression arch rises above the deck
- Compression bandage, designed to reduce the flow of blood
- Compression ratio, a number that predicts the performance of any internal-combustion engine
- Data compression, encoding information using fewer bits
- Image compression
- Audio data compression
- Video compression
- Compression artifact, noticeable defects in audio or video that has been compressed
- Bandwidth compression, in telecommunications
- Gain compression, in electronic amplifiers, which is a result of device non-linearity
- Audio level compression, usually artificially introduced Gain compression to improve the perceived quality of audio
- Compression (functional analysis), in mathematics
[edit] See also
- Compressor
- Compressor (software), Final Cut video and audio compression and encoding application
- KOMPRESSOR, an electronic musician.
- Compaction
- Decompression
- Expansion
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