com|pressed

com|pressed
com|pressed «kuhm PREHST», adjective.
1. squeezed together; made smaller by pressure; condensed: »

Figurative. When the I.C.B.M. program was accelerated…it was geared to a timetable so compressed it was viewed as wildly optimistic (New York Times).

2. Botany. flattened along its length.
3. Zoology. narrower in the lateral dimension than in the dorsoventral dimension; of greater depth than width: »

The flounder has a compressed body.

com|press´ed|ly, adverb.

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