Computing Dictionary
deflate definition
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)