{
  "handle": "Compress",
  "mechanism": "Reducing the size of information while preserving the meaning that matters to its consumer. Which meaning matters is the caller's to state; whether the reduction can be undone is the compressor's to declare. No coder shrinks every input.",
  "gloss": "Lossy or lossless reduction",
  "invariants": [
    "States whether exact reconstruction of its input is available.",
    "Where reconstruction is declared available, Inverse(Output) == Input bit-for-bit.",
    "A compressor that cannot reduce an input reports that rather than emitting an expanded output as compressed."
  ],
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    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 0,
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Primitives"
    ],
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  "sema_ref": "Compress#b585",
  "sema_stub": "b585",
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Primitives",
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      "Summarize": "sema:Summarize#mh:SHA-256:98dbf6e131bc82331b818b0b8fe816580020629f334d12e7c4c51b3f93c1c2d5",
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}