0 present participle of decompress --
1 to reduce in pressure or return to the original lower pressure, or to cause something to do this: --
As computing power increased, this load became minimal, and in some cases dedicated chips in a computer (such as a sound card) would actually handle all the decompressing.
The pump may stop pumping liquid with gas bubbles in the pump head even though mechanically the pump is going through the motions, repeatedly compressing and decompressing the bubbles.
A second effect is that a diver ascending to altitude, will be decompressing en route, and will have residual nitrogen until all tissues have equilibrated to the local pressures.
Test compression techniques address this problem, by decompressing the scan input on chip and compressing the test output.
The energy from decompressing the material is recovered, and the process heat and pressure is usually powered from the light combustible gases.
In order to allow compressing and decompressing images in scanning order, it does not reference future bits.
Capa breaches the airlock's outer door, thereby opening the inner door by decompressing the ship.
It also provides a filter for "decompressing" ("inflating", "uncompressing") a gzip compressed "response body".
