Codec, abbreviation of coder-decoder or compression-decompression, a standard used for compressing and decompressing digital media, especially audio and video, which have traditionally consumed significant bandwidth.
In 1932 Owen Wangensteen, at the University of Minnesota, advised decompressing the bowel, and in 1934 two other Americans, Thomas Miller and William Abbott, of Philadelphia, invented an apparatus for this purpose, a tube with an inflatable balloon on the end that could be passed into the small intestine.
By rapidly compressing and decompressing this data, the required bandwidth is reduced, resulting in an increase of interactive and multimedia content being accessed and transmitted over networks.
"The panic to buy is over," said Tim O'Shea, manager of the Weichert Realtors office in Summit, N.J. "People are decompressing.
It was the late 1990s and Mr. Vedder was in Hawaii, decompressing after a tour with his band, Pearl Jam, when one of those modest, four-stringed instruments caught his eye in an out-of-the-way drugstore.
Often, I'm working out of town and spend my Sundays flying back into New York and decompressing.
"I could work a 20-hour day and come home and sit on a couch totally decompressing without worrying about somebody else's mess or somebody else's moods," he said.
And then he demonstrated getting into character, slowly decompressing his body, part by part: "I go ankle, knees, waist, shoulders, hand, hand, lip, eyes, and that's it".
Substance tomorrow, maybe; right now I'm tired, I'm decompressing from a couple of very hard weeks, and I want some simple pleasure.
You stop on the way down to begin decompressing.
As Mr. Yankovich of eBay said, most transactions on the company's iPad app take place from 5 to 11 p.m. "People are decompressing after work, maybe had a few cocktails," he said.
