incompressible

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incompressible

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From in- + compressible. Compare French incompressible.

adjective incompressable · uncompressable · uncompressible

  1. not comparable Not compressible. As water [trapped in the cylinders] is incompressible, a momentary leap in [steam] pressure is liable to occur in starting; […].
  2. not comparable, of a vector field Having a divergence equal to zero.

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adj not compressible

Françaisincompressible
Deutschinkompressibel
Italianoincomprimibile
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@misc{incompressible_2026,
  title = {incompressible},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/incompressible},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}