Decrunches vs Decrunchers - What's the difference?
decrunches | decrunchers |
(decrunch)
(computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
* 1993 , The New York Times Book Review (volume 98, page 2)
* 1996 , "Marcus Alanen", Re: Exe Crunchers'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )
* 1998 , Sandra Martz, ?Shirley Coe, Generation to generation (page 123)
As a verb decrunches
is (decrunch).As a noun decrunchers is
.decrunches
English
Verb
(head)decrunch
English
Verb
(es)- Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating
- The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.
- Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch , what do you recommend?