Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to compress.
- adjective Resistant to compression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not compressible; incapable of being reduced in volume by pressure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
compressible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being compressed; resisting compression
Etymologies
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in- + compressible
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