incompressible
adjective
in·com·press·ible
ˌin-kəm-ˈpre-sə-bəl
: incapable of or resistant to compression
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Thanks to being an incompressible medium, water transmits vibrations both farther and faster than the air.
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Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the oldest and most prominent of these equations, formulated by Leonhard Euler more than 250 years ago, describe the flow of an ideal, incompressible fluid: a fluid with no viscosity, or internal friction, that cannot be forced into a smaller volume.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
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Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the oldest and most prominent of these equations, formulated by Leonhard Euler more than 250 years ago, describe the flow of an ideal, incompressible fluid: a fluid with no viscosity, or internal friction, that cannot be forced into a smaller volume.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
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“Incompressible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incompressible. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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