ungzip

English

Etymology

un- +‎ gzip

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈdʒiːzɪp/

Verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

  1. (computing, transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).
    • 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management (page 405)
      I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]
    • 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML (page 764)
      This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

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