Used in a Sentence

compressor

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for compressor.

Editorial note

The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of compressor gathered in one view.

noun

A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.

noun

A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.

noun

A device that squeezes (compresses).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for compressor.

noun

A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.

noun

A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.

noun

A device that squeezes (compresses).

noun

An instrument for compressing an artery (especially the femoral artery) or other part.

Example sentences

1

The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.

2

It's a jet engine, although normal jets have to have elaborate turbine-compressor thingys to do the air compression.

3

Even if it's just the A/C compressor or the muffler, you are always replacing something every few months.

4

There's very little difference between a contextual predictive model like this and the guts of a compressor.

5

But what if you roll out your own compressor using the same FFT Technology?

6

You can see that not all the variables are converted, since Yahoo's compressor is very conservative and won't change functions or global objects names.

7

While it has nothing to do with the invention in the article (which is just about restructuring cabin airflow): air in an airplane is constantly introduced from outside, pressurized taps from the compressor inside the engine(s).

8

I did a proof of concept of an lz4hc image compressor, and it made for acceptable startup times while taking the overhead down to under 30MB.

9

I invented quite a novel, lossless bitmap compressor during a boring commute along highway 1 - again at night - between San Mateo and Santa Cruz.

10

Using Kolmogorov complexity in the Solomonoff Measure also constitutes ignoring the problem of generalization by assuming an optimal compressor into existence, which again is an issue of the cognitive resources of training data and processing power.

11

'The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation.[4] The air breathing mode combines a turbo-compressor with a lightweight air precooler positioned just behind the inlet cone.

12

They're part of the engines because the air has to be compressed and heated before going into the cabin (in flight, it's 1/3 of normal pressure and -40C outside) which, it turns out, the compressor turbine is perfectly suited for.

Quote examples

1

When the blog post says the model achieved a performance of "1.57 bits per character", that's just another way of saying "if we used the neural network as a compressor, this is how well it would perform."

2

This works even cooler when you want to minify your code: MyLongClassName = function() {}; function(_c) { _c.prototype.method1 =...; _c.prototype.method2 =...; }(MyLongClassName); This allows something like YUI compressor to shorten _c local variable for every method definition, rather than store "MyLongClassName" for each one.

Proper noun examples

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For a while I was trying to get jailbroken iPhones to work as distributed nodes for Compressor.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use compressor in a sentence?

The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.

What does compressor mean?

A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.

What part of speech is compressor?

compressor is commonly used as noun.