Decrunch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Decrunch is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
Meaning
(ambitransitive, computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
Example Sentences
Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?
The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.
Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]
Word Forms
- decrunches
- decrunching
- decrunched
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crunch, uncrunch, decompress, explode, inflate, depack.
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