compressable
English edit
Adjective edit
compressable (comparative more compressable, superlative most compressable)
- (proscribed) Alternative form of compressible
- 1989, Sam Hanish, A treatise on acoustic radiation, page 433:
- Natural, or man-made, sources of sound consist in general of physical mechanisms which generate fluctuating volumes, or gradients of force, in a compressable medium.
- 1999, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2924:
- […] a generally solid parallelepipedon of a compressable polymeric material that is beveled to define a plurality of movable wedge-shaped members having rhomboid-shaped opposed end walls […]
Usage notes edit
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