Kompressoituminen

Kompressoituminen refers to the phenomenon of compression, typically in the context of physical materials or data. In materials science, kompressoituminen describes how a substance's volume decreases when subjected to external pressure. This is a fundamental property of matter, although the degree to which materials compress varies significantly. Gases are highly compressible, liquids are much less so, and solids are generally considered incompressible for many practical purposes, though they do exhibit some degree of compression under extreme forces.

In the realm of data storage and transmission, kompressoituminen involves reducing the size of a file or data stream. This is achieved through various algorithms that identify and eliminate redundancy. Data compression can be lossless, meaning the original data can be perfectly reconstructed, or lossy, where some information is discarded to achieve greater size reduction, often with minimal perceptible impact on quality for media files like images, audio, and video. The goal of kompressoituminen in computing is to save storage space and reduce the bandwidth required for data transfer.