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deflate |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deflate \De*flate"\, v. t. [Pref. de- down + L. flare, flatus to blow.] To reduce from an inflated condition. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deflate v 1: collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon" 2: release contained air or gas from "deflate the air mattress" 3: reduce or lessen the size or importance of "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" [syn: {puncture}] 4: produce deflation in "The new measures deflated the economy" [ant: {inflate}] 5: reduce or cut back the amount or availability of creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: {inflate}] 6: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" [ant: {inflate}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: deflateformat, compression> A {compression} {standard} derived from {LZ77}; it is reportedly used in {zip}, {gzip}, {PKZIP}, and {png}, among others Unlike {LZW}, deflate compression does not use patented compression {algorithms}. Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file which has been compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, {inflate}, means to decompress data which has been deflated. Deflate is described in {RFC 1951}. (1997-06-21)
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