decompressing
present participle ofdecompress
decompress
verb
uk/ˌdiː.kəmˈpres/us/ˌdiː.kəmˈpres/[IorT]
toreduceinpressureorreturnto theoriginallowerpressure, or tocausesomething to do this:
If aplanewindowbreaks, thecabinwillrapidlydecompress.
[IorT]computingspecialized
toreturnto theoriginalsize, or tocausesomething to do this:
Thecomputerchipcompressesand decompresses acolourimagein less than a second.
[I,IorT]mainlyUSinformal
torelax:
After twoweeks'hikingwe'll need a fewdaysto decompress.
to relax
- relaxAfter a long day in the office, I love nothing more than relaxing on the sofa.
- chill outWe spent the whole week chilling out on the beach.
- chillaxHey, man, just chillax.
- unwindMusic helps me to unwind.
- wind downOur daughter knows that when we read a story at the end of the day, it's time to wind down and get ready for bed.
- take it easyYou'll need to spend a few days taking it easy after the operation.
Physics: energy, force & power
- anti-gravity
- attract
- attraction
- bar magnet
- barometric pressure
- dynamo
- fundamental force
- G-force
- gravitational
- high-impact
- incident
- magnetic field
- meltdown
- stored energy
- thrust
- transduce
- transduction
- unexcited
- unipolar
- waveform
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Enlarging and inflating
Calming and relaxing
Examplesofdecompressing
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Three patients underwent early embolization using coils of systemic venous collaterals that weredecompressingthe cavopulmonary shunt.
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All that could be done was to wait for a southerly gale that would start pushing,decompressingand opening the ice in the other direction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced by minimizing the number of decompressions, and bydecompressingat a very conservative rate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He correctly describes a technique for helping an injured man in a pressure suit bydecompressingthe suit for less than a minute.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike a compressed image of a conventional file system, a cramfs image can be used as it is, i.e. without firstdecompressingit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fire is quickly put out bydecompressingthe afflicted sections.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also provides a filter for "decompressing" ("inflating", "uncompressing") a gzip compressed "response body".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Capa breaches the airlock's outer door, thereby opening the inner door bydecompressingthe ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In order to allow compressing anddecompressingimages in scanning order, it does not reference future bits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The energy fromdecompressingthe material is recovered, and the process heat and pressure is usually powered from the light combustible gases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Test compression techniques address this problem, bydecompressingthe scan input on chip and compressing the test output.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A second effect is that a diver ascending to altitude, will bedecompressingen route, and will have residual nitrogen until all tissues have equilibrated to the local pressures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pump may stop pumping liquid with gas bubbles in the pump head even though mechanically the pump is going through the motions, repeatedly compressing anddecompressingthe bubbles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As computing power increased, this load became minimal, and in some cases dedicated chips in a computer (such as a sound card) would actually handle all thedecompressing.
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- primary interest
- primary jurisdiction
- primary justification
- primary language
- primary lesion
- primary limitation
- primary locus
- primary loyalty
- primary market
- primary-market
- primary material
- primary means
- primary mechanism
- primary medium
- primary memory
- primary-memory
- primary mirror
- primary mortgage market
- primary-mortgage-market
- primary motivation
- primary motive
- primary objective
- primary obligation
- primary obstacle
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