Definition: Data compression


Reducing the size of a file or data in general. Several compression techniques are used to save time and space during transfer/communication and storage.




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Gigabyte(GB)

Expression used to describe storage capacity or amount of data. One gigabyte is about 1000 millions of bytes/characters (10243).

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