Definition of "compressed" []

• Pressed together or into less volume or space. (adjective)
• Biology Flattened, especially laterally or lengthwise, as certain leafstalks or the bodies of many fishes. (adjective)

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• ""Spunnels" in the public's jargon, came into being, the term compressed from the phrase "hyperspace tunnels," a universal phenomenon once suspected and eventually confirmed."
• "The other lab-experiment dessert utilizes what they call compressed fruit, which to me looks like cantaloupe and honeydew cubes with cold melon soup and a few flowers in a cool asymmetrical bowl."
• "A long time ago I was thinking about compression methods and had thoughts along the same lines, trying to consider at what point it became more practical to assign everything a reference number rather than storing the image itself in compressed form."