Antonyms for compression
kəmˈprɛʃ əncom·pres·sion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. compressionnoun

   Antonyms:
   rarefaction, decompression

2. compressionnoun

   Antonyms:
   decompression, rarefaction

3. compressionnoun

   Antonyms:
   rarefaction, decompression

4. compressionnoun

   Antonyms:
   decompression, rarefaction

5. compressionnoun

   Antonyms:
   rarefaction, decompression

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. compression

   Antonyms:
   circumlocution, diffuseness, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, surplusage, tautology, tediousness, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness

   Synonyms:
   brevity, compactness, conciseness, condensation, directness, plainness, shortness, succinctness, terseness

Matched Categories

1. • Concentration
   • Encoding
   • Pressure

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. compaction, compression, concretion, densificationnoun

   an increase in the density of something

   Antonyms:
   decompression, decompressing

   Synonyms:
   densification, condensation, compressing, coalescence, crush, calculus, concretion, coalition, compaction, crunch, conglutination, contraction, coalescency

2. compression, condensation, contractionnoun

   the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

   "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

   Antonyms:
   decompression, decompressing

   Synonyms:
   densification, abridgement, condensation, compressing, abridgment, capsule, concretion, compaction, muscle contraction, condensate, muscular contraction, contraction, condensing

3. compressionnoun

   encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required

   Antonyms:
   decompression, decompressing

   Synonyms:
   compressing, condensation, concretion, compaction, densification, contraction

4. compression, compressingnoun

   applying pressure

   Antonyms:
   decompression, decompressing

   Synonyms:
   compressing, condensation, concretion, compaction, densification, contraction

How to use compression in a sentence?

1. Art Hogan:

   The selloff last week was an over reaction and the attempted rally was too fast and furious, i think the compression of time and speed of Wunderlich Equity Capital Markets causes the pendulum to swing too far on every move we make.

2. Brendan Ahern:

   China represents a significant growth opportunity for global financial service companies, developed markets such as the United States and Europe are highly competitive and mature which have led to fee compression and diminishing opportunities.

3. Speaker Ryan:

   We have some compression in the schedule, votes are going to be all over the place.

4. Phil Hartmann:

   So as these compression garments claim it increases the blood flow during exercise, those negative -- well potentially negative -- properties can be washed out sooner.

5. Tauya Nenguke:

   I know this guy was out, i didn't know how long, I just started chest compression immediately.

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