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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   massage
      Vague term used to describe "smooth" transformations of a data
      set into a different form, especially transformations that do
      not lose information.  Connotes less pain than munch or
      crunch.  "He wrote a program that massages X bitmap files
      into GIF format."  Compare slurp.
      [Jargon File]