decompression
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- n restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display
- n relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)
- Foot by foot the decompression chamber was hoisted toward the surface.
- A saturated diver forced to leave the pressurized chamber before a final 50 hours of decompression could explode internally because of rapidly expanding bodily gases.
- For the child, the benefits of decompression seem even more significant.