For some words there is a noun for the act of doing. For example, "deletion" is the act of deleting, "omission" is the act of omitting, "summation" is the act or process of forming a sum. Is there such a word for "zipping"? I'm asking from a programming context, so I'm talking about zipping a file. That may inform the question, since many of these verbs have an object or lack thereof as a result.
Here are a few examples of the types of sentences I'm thinking of:
He had disrupted the class, and the students did not appreciate the disruption.
After a deletion, the program will return to its previous state.
The reformation of the group was mainly due to Sarah's newfound zeal for scrapbooking.
The analogous usage would be "disrupt"->"disruption", "delete"->"deletion", and "reform"->"reformation".
Answer
See compression at techtarget.com, defined as
Compression is a reduction in the number of bits needed to represent data.
It is the word for zipping a file.
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