deflate
<file format, compression> A compression standard derived from LZ77; it
is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others.
Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms.
Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file which has been
compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, inflate, means to decompress
data which has been deflated.
Deflate is described in RFC 1951.
(1997-06-21)
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