incompressible

incompressible

English

Etymology

From French incompressible, from in- +‎ compressible.

Adjective

incompressible (not comparable)

1. Not compressible.
2. (calculus, of a vector field) Having a divergence equal to zero.

Alternative forms

• incompressable, uncompressable, uncompressible

Derived terms

• incompressibleness

Translations

not compressible

Bulgarian: несвиваем (nesvivaem) Finnish: puristumaton French: incompressible (fr) German: inkompressibel (de) Greek: απίεστος (el) (apíestos) Italian: incomprimibile Swedish: inkompressibel (sv)

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French

Etymology

in- +‎ compressible

Pronunciation

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Adjective

incompressible (plural incompressibles)

1. incompressible
2. (law) for a penalty (peine incompressible): mandatory (period, minimum), ineligibility (period of parole ~)

Further reading

• “incompressible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.