Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to compress.
- adjective Resistant to compression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not compressible; incapable of being reduced in volume by pressure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
compressible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being compressed; resisting compression
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I read it right, he’s claiming that IC structures are, according to information theory, necessarily random in your #2 sense of incompressible, which is clearly at odds with reality.
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Instead of using an internal bladder to compress the carbon fiber from inside, the patented process involves some kind of solid, incompressible material that forms an inner mold for the rims.
Interbike Tech Gallery: Hot new wheels from Rolf, Ritchey, and DT Swiss 2010
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Water is the obvious material, since it is abundant, cheap, and has the interesting property of being incompressible.
Dr. Philip Neches: Natural Gas Pains Dr. Philip Neches 2011
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But ultimately our acceptance of terrible poverty amidst such extravagant and nearly incompressible wealth is possible because we underestimate the heart of our nation.
Deepak Bhargava: How Big Is America's Heart? Deepak Bhargava 2010
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The discussions remind me of the massless beams, frictionless planes, and inviscid/incompressible flows that dot the physics and engineering pedagogy: very useful to a point, and wildly inaccurate past that point.
Roll Over, Ricardo, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But ultimately our acceptance of terrible poverty amidst such extravagant and nearly incompressible wealth is possible because we underestimate the heart of our nation.
Deepak Bhargava: How Big Is America's Heart? Deepak Bhargava 2010
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But ultimately our acceptance of terrible poverty amidst such extravagant and nearly incompressible wealth is possible because we underestimate the heart of our nation.
Deepak Bhargava: How Big Is America's Heart? Deepak Bhargava 2010
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Energetic cost to space is the same for everyone and essentially incompressible ...
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But ultimately our acceptance of terrible poverty amidst such extravagant and nearly incompressible wealth is possible because we underestimate the heart of our nation.
Deepak Bhargava: How Big Is America's Heart? Deepak Bhargava 2010
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This is a revolutionary new concept in thermodynamics -- an incompressible ideal gas!
Over reach EliRabett 2010
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