Compression is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPRESSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of compressing
• the reduction in volume (causing an increase in pressure) of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine before ignition.
• the action of compressing or being compressed.
• The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
• an increase in the density of something
• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
• encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
• applying pressure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act, process, or result of compressing; the state of being compressed

Words related to COMPRESSION

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Words that contain COMPRESSION

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How to use COMPRESSION in a sentence

• But the number was small and the compression of the separate specimens was only slight.
• This mode is opposed to compression, but favorable to truth.
• The specific heat of water being about four times that of air, it readily takes up the heat of compression.
• From excessive compression of the parts, or from the effects of direct injury, a portion of the sensitive sole has become lacerated.
• There are neither the burnished compression, and polished, pointed malice of Pope, nor the gigantic force and vehement fury of Churchill.
• The slightest artificial compression of the waist destroyed the line of beauty.
• Thus the folding visible in the mountain range, and the lateral compression arising therefrom, are effects confined to the upper parts of the crust.
• I have here a simple way of demonstrating to you the fall of temperature attending the compression of ice.
• The result is much loss by omission and much loss by compression.
• Another and very different use to which pumps are put is seen in the compression of gases.
• Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps.
• Agricultural methods also have been modified by the compression pump.
• If the tube is connected to a small compression pump, sufficient air can be sent into the tube to cause the water to sink and to keep the tube permanently clear of water.
• Ask any man what it means to crank an engine of high compression.
• No bones had been heard to crack and, although the compression had been severe, Tom did not think that any serious injury had been inflicted.
• She returned the caress by the slightest possible compression, and put her hand outside the robe.
• It is nearly the same whether derived from compression tests or from tension tests.
• The stronger the compression and tension, the severer the strains and the oftener failures occur.
• A peculiar form of head, which both the Kowrarega and Gudang blacks consider as the beau ideal of beauty, is produced by artificial compression during infancy.
• Her red lips half destroyed their exquisite curves in firm compression.
• When they have remained standing for some length of time, and the strata have been allowed quietly to accumulate around the trunks, they have escaped compression.
• In fact, placing the inner part of the gun in initial tension and the outer part in compression would better resist the effect of internal heat.
• A force of compression results in vibrations within, communicated to the ether, discerned by the eye.

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