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incompressible, a.|ɪnkəmˈprɛsɪb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + compressible: cf. F. incompressible (Furetière, 1690).]
That cannot be compressed or squeezed into smaller compass; incapable of compression.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). a1743Cheyne (J.), Hardness is the reason why water is incompressible, when the air lodged in it is exhausted. 1782A. Monro Anat. 125 The middle fluid part is incompressible. 1858Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Phil., Hydrost. etc. iii. 46 Liquids in general are treated in hydrostatics as incompressible bodies. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 158 The brain is quite incompressible.
b. fig. (In quot. 1824 = irrepressible.)
1823W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LVI. 129 That higher class of writers whose popularity [is] incompressible within the scanty limits of one country. 1824Examiner 370/1 His incompressible mental independence subjected him to the rancorous..calumny of those who knew him not.
Hence incomˈpressibleness (Bailey, folio, 1730). |