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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

incompressibilité

The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; – formerly supposed to be a property of liquids.

The

incompressibility

of water is not absolute.

Rees.

Noun.

[See Incompressible.] The quality of resisting compression, or of being incapable of reduction by force into a smaller compass.