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Compression vs Understanding - What's the difference?

compression | understanding |

As nouns the difference between compression and understanding

is that compression is an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction while understanding is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

As an adjective understanding is

showing compassion.

As a verb understanding is

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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
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2011 , author = Marcelo A. Montemurro & Damián H. Zanette , title = Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families , site = PLoS ONE , url = http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0019875 , accessdate = 2012-09-26}}
    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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    understanding

    English

    (wikipedia understanding)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
  • (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  • (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
  • (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
  • (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
  • (uncountable) Sympathy.
  • All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.

    • See also

    * intellection

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing compassion.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}