🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

compresión de datos

Pronunciation / Transliteration: compresión de datos

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Data compression/ˈdeɪ.tə kəmˈprɛʃ.ən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La compresión de datos es muy útil para enviar archivos grandes por correo."

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As noun
  1. 1

    The process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

    "Data compression is essential for streaming high-definition video over the internet."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late 20th century: from 'data' (plural of datum) + 'compression' (from Latin compressio, from comprimere 'press together'). Coined with the rise of digital computing and telecommunications to describe methods of reducing the size of data for storage and transmission.

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