DEFLATE
\diːflˈe͡ɪt], \diːflˈeɪt], \d_iː_f_l_ˈeɪ_t]\
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collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
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become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
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reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
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reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
By Princeton University
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collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
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become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
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reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
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reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
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By Noah Webster.
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A compression standard derivedfrom LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP,and png, among others.Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patentedcompression algorithms.Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a filewhich has been compressed using deflate compression. Theopposite, inflate, means to decompress data which has beendeflated.Deflate is described in RFC 1951.
By Denis Howe
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