ALL meanings of deflate compression
- abbreviation Technical meaning of DEFLATE COMPRESSION deflate 3
- noun Definition of deflate compression in Technology (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. 1