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"a compression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of compressing something, or an instance of something being compressed. For example, "The file was too large, so I had to do a compression to reduce the file size."
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He started wearing a compression sleeve.
"Trick" was probably a compression of "terrifically".
It's referred to as a compression wave.
Lowry calls Anderson's expressive stillness a "compression of character".
"It was a compression fracture," Diane Watson, her mother, said.
I snapped my bilateral ligament and had a compression fracture the length of my shin.
No longer would basic tools like a test light and a compression gauge be enough.
She portrays a compression of time, space and place, independent of historical significance.
It must be stretched with splints, or squeezed tight with a compression garment against scarring.
And the giraffe's skin, tough and tight-fitting, performs the same task as a compression stocking.
Nelson had a compression fracture that required spinal surgery and pins to correct.
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