incompressible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of incompressible
First recorded in 1720–30; in- 3 + compressible ( def. )
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"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
Engineers describe these conditions as incompressible flow and compressible flow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2025
Another important result involved the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the dynamics of incompressible fluids.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
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
They are usually regarded as incompressible; at least, a very great mechanical force is required to compress them.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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