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Compression may refer to:
[edit] Physical science
- Physical compression, the result of the subjection of a material to compressive stress
- Compression member, a class of structural elements, of which a column is the most common specific example
- Compressibility, a measure of volume change resulting from pressure, the reciprocal of the bulk modulus
- Gas compression, raising the pressure and reducing the volume of gases
- Compression (geology), a system of forces that tend to decrease the volume of or shorten rocks
[edit] Information science
- Brain compression, a potentially fatal condition where pressure is exerted on the brain by internal bleeding
- Compression (functional analysis), the compression of a linear operator "T" on a Hilbert space to a subspace "K" is the operator
- Compression bandage, a bandage that uses compression to reduce the flow of blood
- Compression (phonetics), running syllables together in informal speech
- Compression (zoology) when an animal, or part of an animal, is shorter or narrower compared with other animals in the same group; e.g. the body of a lizard may be "compressed" (flattened) so it can better fit into crevices under rocks
- Gain compression, in electronic amplifiers, a reduction in differential or slope gain resulting from device non-linearity
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