Used in a Sentence

decompression

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

Editorial note

A more thorough test would have performed the compression and decompression on two different, non-networked machines, so that the only information available to the decompressor is the 4K file.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The process of decompressing.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

The process of decompressing.

noun

The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver).

noun

(medicine) The relief of pressure on a body part by surgery.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for decompression.

noun

The process of decompressing.

noun

The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver).

noun

(medicine) The relief of pressure on a body part by surgery.

noun

A mode of operation of some internal combustion engines which reduces the engine's compression ratio, making it easier to start but significantly increasing fuel consumption.

Example sentences

1

A more thorough test would have performed the compression and decompression on two different, non-networked machines, so that the only information available to the decompressor is the 4K file.

2

But OpenSSL by default compresses data before encrypting it, and decompression output is not the data that was originally compressed.

3

This is because the request and decompression was being handled on a threadpool thread.

4

Transport compression is required and saves bandwidth, but decompression before parsing hurts.

5

Streaming compression, where the compression or decompression function is called repeatedly to compress or decompress data from a source buffer to a destination buffer.

6

In this case, my guess is some sort of decompression where the pressure inside and outside of a window is rapidly equalized and the people onboard don't have time to react in an intelligent fashion.

7

Edit: Also, do phones have trouble keeping up with gzip decompression?

8

From a pure network connectivity standpoint, you're essentially looking at a bare minimum of ~two frames of latency (about 30-40ms), ignoring additional latency added by video compression/decompression.

9

Doing decompression in a separate thread is however.

10

I would add a pod decompression, and the emergency braking emergencies.

11

LZ4 decompression is only 50% [1] slower.

12

I'm curious, was your decompression test file compressed with zlib?

Quote examples

1

Decompression is much faster than compression." mean nothing because its not telling you if the decompression time on a mobile device is worse than if you had sent it without compression.

2

The real "memory cost" of decompression will be: + compressed size and that's it.

3

For example, Octane contains "Code loading", sunspider has "code decompression" (not true code loading, but at least it does de-minification).

4

"" The libcompression library provides an API for two styles of data compression: Block compression, where all of the input data is compressed or decompressed by one call to the compression or decompression function.

Proper noun examples

1

Decompression, shader compilation, and more.

2

Decompression doesn't use any memory, only the I/O buffers.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use decompression in a sentence?

A more thorough test would have performed the compression and decompression on two different, non-networked machines, so that the only information available to the decompressor is the 4K file.

What does decompression mean?

The process of decompressing.

What part of speech is decompression?

decompression is commonly used as noun.