Air which has been reduced in volume and increased in pressure for use in industrial processes.

The property of a material that relates to its ability to resist compression loads.

A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

plural of compressive strength

(mathematics, computing) Represented by the minimum number of bits that can represent the maximum value (of an integer variable)

plural of compressed yeast

(statistics, signal processing) A signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a signal, by finding solutions to underdetermined linear systems.

plural of compressed-air bath

(historical) A strong metal chamber in which a patient can sit, and into which air is driven by a steam engine to any required pressure; an obsolete form of physical therapy.

The quality of compression