incompressible
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- adjective
- /ˌɪnkəmˈprɛsəbl/
- Specialized
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incompresible
- The fact that the deformations are "virtually incompressible" is relevant because it means that different analytical methods must be used.
- incompressible fluid
- incompressible liquid
- incompressible material
Examples
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We're going to assume that this is shock free, largely incompressible flow for the purposes of Unified.
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And I'm going to show you that this, in contrast to air, is completely incompressible or inelastic.
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So if you have an incompressible fluid flow.
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This was a serious problem because the fuel was incompressible and being the start of the flight, the tanks were full.
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And that flow is incompressible, but let's let's first define the flow.
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An additional complexity of bulk soft tissue is that it is believed to behave as a nearly incompressible material.
Academic text (1996) -
Water is incompressible.
Fiction book (1991) -
In this study, the melted material flow is assumed to be incompressible laminar flow.
Academic text (2018) -
In the fractional quantum Hall regime, however, the two-dimensional electron gas is an incompressible quantum fluid.
Academic text (1994) -
In physics, we often refer to water as an incompressible fluid because it does not change volume under pressure.
Synonyms
Cannot be made smaller by pressure, like water
Antonyms
How Compressible
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Surface Forms
Morphology
incompressible = compressible (transparent) = in + compress + ible
The meaning is a regular negation of 'compressible', giving 'not capable of being compressed'.
Etymology
Incompressible breaks into in- meaning 'not' and compress meaning 'press together', so it literally means 'not able to be pressed smaller'. Think of water or a hard metal that you cannot squish even under strong pressure, and that's why an incompressible material resists being made smaller.