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COMPRESSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compressibility mean?
• COMPRESSIBILITY (noun)
The noun COMPRESSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being able to occupy less space
Familiarity information: COMPRESSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being able to occupy less space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
compressibility; sponginess; squeezability
Hypernyms ("compressibility" is a kind of...):
softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)
Antonym:
incompressibility (the property of being incompressible)
Derivation:
compressible (capable of being compressed or made more compact)
compressible (capable of being easily compressed)
Context examples
Therapeutically inactive substance that helps to make pills hold their shape upon compression and improve compressibility properties in general.
(Compression Aid Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)
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