
Do These Compression Terms Mean Anything At All?
Spend five minutes on a forum or social media thread about compression and you’ll quickly stumble across a sea of words that don’t appear in any manual. “Glue”, “density”, “punch”, “warmth”, “body”, “impact”, “thickness”… the list goes on. These terms get traded like currency, yet few people ever stop to ask: do they actually mean anything? Or are we just agreeing to be vague together?