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When a raindrop lands on the floating dielectric film, the water beneath it provides the strength needed to absorb the impact because of its incompressibility and surface tension.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025

In water pressure machines loss does not occur from these causes, on account of the incompressibility of the liquid, but the frictions of the parts are the principal causes of loss of power.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various

Here the pressure is produced by means of a piston driven up by the force of water, the immense power of which is, in great part, due to its almost total incompressibility.

From Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

The condition is of course artificial, but it represents the actual processes of nature as well as may be, consistently with the postulated incompressibility and homogeneity.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

These properties of the ether, incompressibility and elastic rigidity, are quite conceivable by themselves; but difficulties of thought appear when we reflect upon another quality which the ether clearly must possess—namely, frictionlessness.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith