- being compressed
- being compacted, being pressed, condensation
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
being compressed
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compressed speech — speech reproduced on tape at a faster rate than originally spoken, but without loss of intelligibility, by being filtered through a mechanism that deletes very small segments of the original signal at random intervals. [1965 70] * * * … Universalium
