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COMPRESSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compressible mean? 

COMPRESSIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPRESSIBLE has 2 senses:

1. capable of being compressed or made more compactplay

2. capable of being easily compressedplay

  Familiarity information: COMPRESSIBLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPRESSIBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being compressed or made more compact

Context example:

a compressible box

Similar:

compressed (reduced in volume by pressure)

Antonym:

incompressible (incapable of being compressed; resisting compression)

Derivation:

compress (squeeze or press together)

compressibility (the property of being able to occupy less space)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being easily compressed

Synonyms:

compressible; squeezable

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Derivation:

compress (squeeze or press together)

compressibility (the property of being able to occupy less space)


 Context examples 


Such a concentration of rage and scorn as darkened her face, and flashed in her jet-black eyes, I could not have thought compressible even into that face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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