English Explanatory Dictionary

compressible

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Able to be compressed.
  2. Of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold, containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-compressible.wav

Word forms

compressible more compressible most compressible

Etymology

From Latin compressibilis. By surface analysis, compress + -ible.

Antonyms

incompressible noncompressible uncompressable

Related words

compress compressor

Derived words

compressibility compressibleness compressibly noncompressible pseudocompressible uncompressable uncompressible

Translations

Catalan: comprimible Catalan: compressible Chinese Mandarin: 可壓縮的 /可压缩的 French: compressible Hungarian: összenyomható Ido: kompresebla Italian: comprimibile Latin: compressibilis Latin: compressābilis Manx: yn-vroojey Manx: yn-chohionney Polish: ściśliwy Portuguese: compressível Spanish: comprimible Swedish: kompressibel
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