Other forms: compressors
A compressor is a machine that squeezes air or gas. An air compressor, the compressor failed, a compressor unit.
It is what makes a fridge and an air conditioner work: compressing a gas heats it, letting it expand cools it, and the whole cycle runs on that. In sound recording a compressor is a different thing, evening out loud and quiet parts.
1nouncompressorA machine that squeezes air or gas.
“The mechanic used a compressor to pump air into the tyres.”
compressor is a machine.
From compress plus -or, from Latin comprimere — com, together, plus premere, to press.
New Latin
compressor
English, today
compressor
From compress + -or, or from New Latin compressor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA