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Compression vs Confession - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between compression and confession

is that compression is an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction while confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).

compression

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction
  • the cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed
  • (computing) the process by which data is compressed
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    Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).
  • (music) the electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled
  • (astronomy) the deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form
  • Derived terms

    * compression ratio * compression wave * data compression

    Antonyms

    * decompression * rarefaction

    References

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    confession

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia confession) (en noun)
  • The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
  • Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
  • * Shakespeare
  • With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
  • A formal document providing such an admission.
  • He forced me to sign a confession !
  • (Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
  • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
  • * (First Folio ed.)
  • Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
  • Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
  • * Bible, Rom. x. 10
  • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
  • Derived terms

    * confessional * nonconfession