Shin vs Compression - What's the difference?
shin | compression |
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
A fishplate for a railway.
To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
To strike with the shin.
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(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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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(music) the electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled
(astronomy) the deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form
As a noun compression is
an increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.shin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* tibiaVerb
(shinn)- to shin up a mast
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Synonyms
* shinny (US)Derived terms
* shinny * shin bone * shin leaf * shin splintsEtymology 2
Ultimately from (etyl) . Compare Shamash.Alternative forms
* sheen *Noun
(en noun)External links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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).
