0 present participle of decompress
1 to reduce in pressure or return to the original lower pressure, or to cause something to do this:
Three patients underwent early embolization using coils of systemic venous collaterals that were decompressing the cavopulmonary shunt.
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.
He correctly describes a technique for helping an injured man in a pressure suit by decompressing the suit for less than a minute.
Unlike a compressed image of a conventional file system, a cramfs image can be used as it is, i.e. without first decompressing it.
The fire is quickly put out by decompressing the afflicted sections.
It also provides a filter for "decompressing" ("inflating", "uncompressing") a gzip compressed "response body".
Capa breaches the airlock's outer door, thereby opening the inner door by decompressing the ship.
