recompressionn.

Brit.

/ˌriːkəmˈprɛʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrikəmˈprɛʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, compression n.

Etymology: < re- prefix + compression n., after recompress v.

1. The action or an act of recompressing something, esp. a gas; the fact or state of being compressed again.

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the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-pressure > pressurization of air or gas > decompression or recompression

recompression1864

decompression1905

pump-down1948

1818 J. B. Moore Rep. Cases Common Pleas & Exchequer I. 23 The owner of the cotton paid the expences of carrying it in compressed bales to the machines, and that the recompression was at the expence of the shippers.

1864 U.S. Patent 45,526 3/1 Swelling the volume [of the air] through heat on the rarefying side of the piston, while reducing it through cooling during the recompression on the opposite side.

1895 Times 3 Dec. 10/6 As expensive gases were dealt with in enormous quantities, the apparatus had to provide for their recovery and recompression after expansion.

1906 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 77 324 The filtrates, after a drop in the pressure, show an increased amount of iodide on recompression.

1939 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 43 822 The consequent divergence of the streamlines on the back part of the upper surface generates a recompression.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 507 Subsequent recompression at a pressure minimally greater than the vapour pressure results in recondensation.

2007 Australian (Nexis) 24 July 40 Most movies will need recompression before they can be played on your mobile device.

2. The action or an act of recompressing a person or animal, esp. by exposure to increasing air pressure (typically during descent from a high-altitude flight without pressurization, or following decompression after a dive).

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1873 Chem. News 28 Mar. 147/1 They might afterwards try recompression; but the respiration of oxygen forms a remedy at once simple, inexpensive, easy of application, and perfectly harmless.

1943 M. A. Hitchcock & F. A. Hitchcock tr. P. Bert Barometric Pressure I. ii. iv. 501 M. Bucquoy mentions..the cure of muscular swellings by recompression.

1951 Ferris & Engel in J. F. Fulton et al. Decompression Sickness ii. 23 The pain of bends is immediately relieved by recompression of 3000- to 6000-foot equivalents.

1987 Skin Diver Aug. 22/1 An air embolism..can be reduced and possibly eliminated with recompression.

2004 Dive Sept. 15/3 Not only is recompression treatment for DCS [= decompression sickness] available, but many other aspects of dive medicine too.

Compounds

recompression chamber n. a chamber in which a person can be subjected to an air pressure above that of the atmosphere; = decompression chamber n. (a) at decompression n. Compounds 2.

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the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-pressure > chamber between atmospheric and other

air lock1840

lock1840

recompression chamber1907

recompression lock1911

decompression chamber1932

manlock1940

1907 Lancet 14 Dec. 1676/2 It would have been an obviously ill-judged proceeding to have transferred him to the recompression chamber in the condition he was then in.

1951 A. R. Behnke in J. F. Fulton et al. Decompression Sickness iii. 87 Individuals believed to be ‘cured’..have been rushed to the recompression chamber in a state of collapse.

2004 Dive Sept. 15/1 The London Diving Chamber group has taken over management of the recompression chamber at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in London.

recompression lock n. = recompression chamber n.

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