incompressible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- incompressibility noun
- incompressibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of incompressible
First recorded in 1720–30; in- 3 + compressible ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Engineers describe these conditions as incompressible flow and compressible flow.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025
"And what we found was that at Mach 6, the turbulence behavior is pretty close to the incompressible flow."
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025
Water and air are, to a good approximation, incompressible fluids, and the Navier-Stokes equations are used to design airplane wings and to model weather patterns and ocean currents.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023
Another important result involved the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the dynamics of incompressible fluids.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023
To every proposition in electrostatics there is thus a corresponding one in the hydrokinetic theory of incompressible liquids.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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