Explode may refer to any of the following:

  1. Alternatively known as decompress, uncompress, or unpack, explode is taking a compressed file and restoring it to its original form.
  • How to extract or decompress a compressed file.
  1. Uncompressed describes a file that’s not optimized, larger than other file formats, or is not compressed.

  2. Linux command, see the uncompress command page for additional information about this command.

Compress, Compression utility, Extract, Software terms, Unzip