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
Water was long thought to be incompressible by any external force, but Mr. Canton has shewn that even the pressure of the atmosphere will condense it very sensibly.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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