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incompressible

 

Definitions from WordNet

Adjective incompressible has 1 sense
  1. incompressible - impossible to compress; resisting compression; "mounds of incompressible garbage"
    Antonyms:
    compressible, compressed

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Incompressible

Definition: Referring to a substance or material that cannot be compressed or reduced in volume under pressure.

Part of Speech: Adjective

Senses:

1. Physics: Unable to be compressed, especially referring to fluids.

Example sentence: Water is considered an incompressible fluid as it does not significantly change its volume under pressure.

2. Mathematics: Referring to a function or mapping where the ratio of the differences in the respective variables remains constant, regardless of the values of those variables.

Example sentence: The incompressible flow equation governs the velocity of a fluid in situations where the density remains constant throughout.

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