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Compress

The process of taking one or more files and making them smaller by using a compression algorithm. Commonly, file compression will combine each of the compressed files into one compressed file containing each of the files. Compressed files enable downloading and sharing files to be much easier because the user commonly only needs to download one file and the file is smaller than the overall original program or files.

Also see: Compressed file, Compressed utility, Crunch, Explode, Extract, Huffman Code, Lossless compression, Lossly compressionPack, Stuff, Uncompress, Zip, Zoo

 

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