0 to reduce in pressure or return to the original lower pressure, or to cause something to do this:
1 to change a computer file that has been made smaller back to its original size:
The information is decoded and decompressed before being passed along to the cinema sound processor.
All that could be done was to wait for a southerly gale that would start pushing, decompressing and opening the ice in the other direction.
The risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced by minimizing the number of decompressions, and by decompressing at a very conservative rate.
Blocks are divided into segments that must be decompressed sequentially in order.
He correctly describes a technique for helping an injured man in a pressure suit by decompressing the suit for less than a minute.
As the shock wave decays, the shocked region decompresses towards more usual pressures and densities.
Explosive eruptions occur when magma decompresses as it rises, allowing dissolved volatiles (dominantly water and carbon dioxide) to exsolve into gas bubbles.
If nerve conduction studies show a large (90%) change in nerve conduction, the nerve should be decompressed.
