compressed
adjective
com·pressed
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Definition of compressed
1
: pressed together : reduced in size or volume (as by pressure)
2
: flattened as though subjected to compression:
a
: flattened laterally
petioles compressed
b
: narrow from side to side and deep in a dorsoventral direction
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Other Words from compressed
compressedly
\ kəm-ˈprest-lē
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adverb
, -ˈpre-səd-lē
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adverb
Examples of compressed in a Sentence
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The bottom part of the cliff — the part that fell — is a compressed, compacted sand and claystone material that’s millions of years old. — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "A cliff collapse. Three deaths. More bluff failures expected with rising seas," 9 Aug. 2019 The compressed campaign schedule may be all the more difficult to manage because the period for candidates to formally enter the race has not begun, and some possible contenders have not made their intentions clear. — Lilia Blaise, New York Times, "Tunisia’s Democracy Is Tested, and Pulls Through, After a President’s Death," 26 July 2019 And a poll last year by staffing firm Robert Half found that 17% of companies had compressed work weeks that squish the same number of hours into fewer days. — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, "Here's where you can have 4-day work week. Is this the next big thing?," 17 July 2019 This should be the future of virtual reality — not those silly headsets, pixilated video, cheapo headphones and compressed audio. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Benjamin Millepied’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ this time at the Hollywood Bowl," 17 July 2019 The police radio recordings demonstrate the compressed time for decision-making as the event unfolded. — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, "D.C. police supervisor called off pursuit one minute before deadly crash," 26 June 2019 The axion mattress was extremely compressed, which made the Higgs mass enormous. — Quanta Magazine, "A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass," 27 May 2015 The only exceptions are charcoal and gas grills, as well as backpacking or camp stoves that use gas or compressed fuel canisters. — Madeline Mcgee, Anchorage Daily News, "State bans campfires from Homer to Fairbanks as wildfires rage," 10 July 2019 Seeing a famous poster evokes a different sensation, that of a compressed blur of times and places. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, "How Posters Became Art," 1 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compressed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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