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Decompress vs Uncrunch - What's the difference?

decompress | uncrunch |

As verbs the difference between decompress and uncrunch

is that decompress is to relieve the pressure or compression on something while uncrunch is (computing|transitive) to decompress.

decompress

English

Verb

(es)
  • To relieve the pressure or compression on something.
  • To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  • (computing) To restore compressed data to its normal size.
  • To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
  • (informal) To relax.

    • Derived terms

    * decompression

    Anagrams

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    uncrunch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (computing) To decompress.
  • * 1986 , Compute: Volume 8
    • Load (but do not run) the BASIC program you want to uncrunch .
  • * 1989 , "Ranjit Bhatnagar", Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP)'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga )
    • Thus when you invoke the crunched version of emacs, for instance, it actually loads the uncruncher, which then loads and uncrunches the rest of emacs.
  • * 2002 , "Mark Blunden", Temple District'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.baldurs-gate )
    • Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.

    Usage notes

    * Associated with the (Commodore Amiga) computer.