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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

supercompress en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From super- + compress.

Meanings

  1. To compress to a great extent.
    • The principle followed by the designers of this engine is to supercompress and supercharge at ground level to the limit... 1932, Scientific American:
    • It might be possible for desktop technosynergic computers to supercompress an infinite number of calculations through synergic computing. 2004, Keith N Ferreira, Simpletism:
    • Message digest methods supercompress messages so that encryption and decryption operate on less data and, therefore, take less time. 2001, H X Mel, Doris M Baker, Cryptography decrypted:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
supercompressing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
supercompressed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
supercompressed Tense=Past lexicographic
supercompresses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic