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2. Smallpdf.com - Wikipedia

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   History. Smallpdf was founded in 2013 by Mathis Büchi, Lino Teuteberg, and Manuel Stofer while they were living abroad in Korea. The idea came from the need for their families to compress and send large documents via email. [4] The initial version of the site featured a standalone PDF compression tool. [5] Since then, the online platform has ...

3. Compressor - Wikipedia

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   Compressor. A small stationary high pressure breathing air compressor for filling scuba cylinders. High pressure reciprocating compressor from Belliss and Morcom, used in the bottling industry. A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor.

4. PDF - Wikipedia

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   PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [6] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [6] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain. [6]

5. Air compressor - Wikipedia

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   Air compressor supplies air into a nail gun.. An air compressor is a machine that takes ambient air from the surroundings and discharges it at a higher pressure. It is an application of a gas compressor and a pneumatic device that converts mechanical power (from an electric motor, diesel or gasoline engine, etc.) into potential energy stored in compressed air, which has many uses.

6. Snappy (compression) - Wikipedia

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   Compression speed is 250 MB/s and decompression speed is 500 MB/s using a single core of a circa 2011 "Westmere" 2.26 GHz Core i7 processor running in 64-bit mode. The compression ratio is 20–100% lower than gzip. Snappy is widely used in Google projects like Bigtable, MapReduce and in compressing data for Google's internal RPC systems.

7. Gas turbine engine compressors - Wikipedia

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   As the name suggests, gas turbine engine compressors provide the compression part of the gas turbine engine thermodynamic cycle. There are three basic categories of gas turbine engine compressor: axial compressor, centrifugal compressor and mixed flow compressor. A fourth, unusual, type is the free-piston gas generator, which combines the ...