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Princeton's WordNet

  1. compressibleadjective

    capable of being compressed or made more compact

    "compressible packing materials"; "a compressible box"

  2. compressible, squeezableadjective

    capable of being easily compressed

Wiktionary

  1. compressibleadjective

    able to be compressed

  2. compressibleadjective

    Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.

  3. Etymology: Probably from

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Compressibleadjective

    Capable of being forced into a narrower compass; yielding to pressure, so as that one part is brought nearer to another.

    Etymology: from compress.

    Their being spiral particles, accounts for the elasticity of air; their being spherical particles, which gives free passage to any heterogeneous matter, accounts for air’s being compressible. George Cheyne, Phil. Prin.

Wikipedia

  1. compressible

    In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility or, if the temperature is held constant, the isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change. In its simple form, the compressibility κ {\displaystyle \kappa } (denoted β in some fields) may be expressed as β = − 1 V ∂ V ∂ p {\displaystyle \beta =-{\frac {1}{V}}{\frac {\partial V}{\partial p}}} ,where V is volume and p is pressure. The choice to define compressibility as the negative of the fraction makes compressibility positive in the (usual) case that an increase in pressure induces a reduction in volume. The reciprocal of compressibility at fixed temperature is called the isothermal bulk modulus.

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  1. compressible

    Compressible refers to substances or materials that can be reduced in volume by applying pressure, due to the empty spaces between their particles. It is the capacity of a substance to change its form or volume under external forces or pressure. The term is typically used in physics and engineering to describe gases, but it can apply to other materials as well.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Compressibleadjective

    capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. compressible.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of compressible in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of compressible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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