supercompress

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English

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Etymology

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From super- +‎ compress.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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supercompress (third-person singular simple present supercompresses, present participle supercompressing, simple past and past participle supercompressed)

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