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INCOMPRESSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incompressibility mean?
• INCOMPRESSIBILITY (noun)
The noun INCOMPRESSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being incompressible
Familiarity information: INCOMPRESSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being incompressible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("incompressibility" is a kind of...):
hardness (the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale)
Antonym:
compressibility (the property of being able to occupy less space)
Derivation:
incompressible (incapable of being compressed; resisting compression)
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