Hunching over a computer screen or cellphone compresses the neck muscles, which causes fatigue, muscle tension and headaches, and can injure vertebrae.

Fossilization is the result of the compression of organisms by the earth during a lot of time.

Taylor says research has shown that compressing the femoral artery is more effective than applying pressure to a leg wound or using a makeshift tourniquet.

Scroll compressors consist of two scrolls to pressurize refrigerant.

I stomped on the pile of leaves to compress it.

This file has been compressed.

An iceberg looks white because compressed snow on its surface contains large numbers of tiny air bubbles and crystal edges that equally reflect all wavelengths of visible light.

Temperature is mean kinetic energy, not energy over volume; compression heats a gas by doing work on it; and a gas that expands without doing work does not cool.

If something was compressed, then something else expanded.

Carnot machines work according to cycles of compression and expansion.