incompressible

Adjective

Meaning

Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible.

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Synonyms

close compressible hard solid substantial concrete firm thick concentrated compact dense coherent crystalline stiff impenetrable
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Antonyms

compressible half-baked rare thin insufficient inadequate
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Examples

mounds of incompressible garbage Source: Internet

American Journal of Physics vol. 77, pages 526 537 Examples include a solid body with a cavity filled with an inviscid, incompressible, homogeneous liquid, N.N. Moiseyev and V.V. Rumyantsev (1968). Source: Internet

Because water and most liquids are nearly incompressible, almost all of the available energy is extracted in the first stage of the hydraulic turbine. Source: Internet

Because water is incompressible and must remain within the confines of the bucket, this outward movement increases the depth of water at the larger radius, increasing the height of the surface at larger radius, and lowering it at smaller radius. Source: Internet

Class 1 The feedback is essentially incompressible; the speed of sound, although finite, is sufficiently large that it can be considered infinite. Source: Internet

Compressible vs incompressible flow All fluids are compressible to some extent, that is, changes in pressure or temperature cause changes in density. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

incomprehensiveness incompressable incompressibility incompressibleness incomputability incomputable