The measurement of compressed data. For example, a file compressed into 1/4th of its original size can be expressed as 4:1, 25%, 75% or 2 bits per byte. See archive program and data compression. THIS ...

Compression ratio is just the difference between the biggest and smallest volume in a cylinder. Smallest is when the piston’s at the top, biggest is when it’s at the bottom. So if the volume goes from ...

A compression technique that does not decompress digital data back to 100% of the original. Lossy methods can provide high degrees of compression and result in smaller compressed files, but some ...