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Shorten — (SHN) ist ein digitales Verfahren zur verlustfreien Audiodatenkompression. Shorten ist ein Format zur platzsparenden Archivierung von PCM Wave Dateien mit 44,1 kHz 16 Bit Stereo mit niederer Komplexität und ist daher schnell und braucht… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Shorten — Short en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shortened ?}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shortening}.] [See {Short}, a.] 1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. [1913 Webster] 2. To… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Shorten — (SHN) es un formato de archivo usado para comprensión sin pérdidas para archivos de audio calidad CD (44.1 kHz 16 bit estéreo PCM. Es un formato de archivos de datos comprimido similar al ZIP, RAR, y Stufflt; pero está optimizado para compresión… … Wikipedia Español
shorten — shorten, curtail, abbreviate, abridge, retrench can all mean to reduce in extent, especially by cutting. Shorten commonly implies reduction in length or duration {shorten a road by eliminating curves} {to shorten a visit} It is also often used of … New Dictionary of Synonyms
shorten — [shôrt′ n] vt. 1. to make short or shorter; reduce in length, amount, or extent 2. to furl or reef (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the breeze 3. to add shortening in making (pastry, etc.) for crispness or flakiness vi. to become short… … English World dictionary
shorten — index abstract (summarize), commute, condense, constrict (compress), curtail, decrease, digest ( … Law dictionary
shorten — (v.) 1510s, from SHORT (Cf. short) (adj.); the earlier form of the verb was simply short, from O.E. sceortian to grow short, gescyrtan to make short … Etymology dictionary
shorten — [v] diminish, decrease abbreviate, abridge, blue pencil*, bob, boil down*, chop, clip, compress, condense, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut to the bone*, dock, edit, elide, excerpt, lessen, lop, make a long story short*, minimize,… … New thesaurus
shorten — ► VERB 1) make or become shorter. 2) Sailing reduce the amount of (sail spread) … English terms dictionary
Shorten — Infobox Software name = Shorten caption = developer = Tony Robinson latest release version = latest release date = latest preview version = latest preview date = operating system = Cross platform genre = Audio codec Encoder license = website =… … Wikipedia
