noun [U]
1 a reduction in air pressure; the act of reducing the pressure of the air:
a decompression chamber (= a piece of equipment that divers sit in so that they can return slowly to normal air pressure after being deep in the sea) * decompression sickness (= severe pain and difficulty in breathing experienced by divers who come back to the surface of deep water too quickly)
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2 (technical) the act or process of allowing sth that has been compressed (= made smaller) to fill the space that it originally took up:
The computers have built-in video decompression capabilities.
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