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Wiktionary:
1. an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction
3. (computing) the process by which data is compressed

ülevaateid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/realworld/compression.pdf

http://rahilshaikh.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/6/3/11635894/data_compression.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_compression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_compression

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