圧縮|あっしゅくasshuku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbcompression
   その気体きたいは圧縮あっしゅくされてボンベに詰め込つめこまれた。↗

   The gas was compressed into a gas cylinder.
2. noun, suru verb, transitive verbcondensing; shortening; summarizing
3. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, computingcompression (of data)
   圧縮あっしゅくしたファイルを添付てんぷで送おくってください。↗

   Send it to me as a compressed file.

• Related収縮しゅうしゅくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Something shrinking on its own, as in 「筋肉が収縮する」; unlike 「圧縮」, which applies outside force, 「収縮」 is the thing contracting by itself.
• Related凝縮ぎょうしゅくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Gathers the essence into one dense whole, as in 「魅力が凝縮された作品」; also for vapour condensing to liquid, not pressing something smaller.
• Related圧搾あっさくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Physical pressing and squeezing, whether pressing liquid out or compressing gas, as in 「圧搾空気」; not used for data or costs.
• Antonym伸長しんちょうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Something growing in length or strength; it contrasts with 「圧縮」 in the sense of making things shorter.
• Antonym拡大かくだいNeutralNeutral. Scale, scope or images growing larger or being magnified; the opposite of 「圧縮」 in the sense of volume or scale shrinking. Data restoration is not called 「拡大」.

Use 「圧縮」 for shrinking volume by pressure, compressing data or cutting costs, as in 「ファイルを圧縮する」. For something shrinking on its own pick 「収縮」, for condensing the essence 「凝縮」, and when scale or size grows, 「拡大」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 物質ぶっしつの体積たいせきを圧力あつりょくを加くわえて縮ちぢめること。
2. 不要ふようなものを切り捨きりすてて、全体量ぜんたいりょうを減へらすこと。
3. データ圧縮あっしゅく。