Usually means: Devices that increase gas pressure.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. compressors: Merriam-Webster
  2. compressors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. compressors: Vocabulary.com
  4. Compressors, compressor's, compressors: Wordnik
  5. compressors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. compressors: Wiktionary
  7. compressors: Dictionary.com
  8. Compressors: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compressors: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compressors: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Compressors: Medical dictionary

(Note: See compressor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compressor)

noun:  A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
noun:  A device that squeezes (compresses).
noun:  An instrument for compressing an artery (especially the femoral artery) or other part.
noun:  An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; a compressorium.
noun:  A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.
noun:  (audio, sound engineering) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
noun:  (anatomy) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
noun:  (computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.
▸ Also see compressor


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