incompressible
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Etymology edit
From French incompressible, from in- + compressible.
Adjective edit
incompressible (not comparable)
- Not compressible.
- 1951 March, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:
- As water [trapped in the cylinders] is incompressible, a momentary leap in [steam] pressure is liable to occur in starting; […] .
- (calculus, of a vector field) Having a divergence equal to zero.
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not compressible
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French edit
Etymology edit
From in- + compressible.
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
incompressible (plural incompressibles)
- incompressible
- (law) for a penalty (peine incompressible): mandatory (period, minimum), ineligibility (period of parole ~)
Further reading edit
- “incompressible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.