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transformations of a data set into a different form, esp. transformations
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that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than
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<a href="munch.html"><i class="glossterm">munch</i></a> or <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>. “<span class="quote">He
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wrote a program that massages X bitmap files into GIF format.</span>”
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