Definitionadj. capable of being compressed or made more compact
Last update: September 2, 2015
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A gas is a compressible fluid, and the change in volume is considerable with moderate variation of pressure. [Please select]
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You know that air is compressible: that by pressure it can be rendered more dense, and that by dilatation it can be rendered more rare. [Please select]
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Moist, soft, and easily compressible soil is to the larva of the Cigale what digested wood-pulp is to the others. [Please select]
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Dropsical as it is, the larva cannot contain sufficient liquid to moisten and convert into easily compressible mud the long column of earth which must be removed from the burrow. [Please select]
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The best description of him compressible in a few words is Balzac's--"He was the incarnation of an entire people."' [Please select]
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_ Monsters and changelings were pointed to by Locke with a certain controversial relish: they proved that nature was not compressed or compressible within Aristotelian genera and species, but was a free mechanism subject to indefinite change. [Please select]
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