adj
Meaning 1
Not compressible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
incompressible
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adj
Meaning 2
Having a divergence equal to zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: calculus, mathematics, sciences
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adjective
Meaning 3
incapable of being compressed; resisting compression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- mounds of incompressible garbage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: compressible
History
Etymology
From in- + compressible. Compare French incompressible.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: несвиваем (nesvivaem) — not compressible
- Dutch: onsamendrukbaar — not compressible
- Finnish: puristumaton — not compressible
- French: incompressible — not compressible
- German: inkompressibel — not compressible
- Greek: απίεστος (apíestos) — not compressible
- Italian: incomprimibile — not compressible
- Polish: nieściśliwy — not compressible
- Swedish: inkompressibel — not compressible