incompressibility

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ compressibility.

Noun

incompressibility (countable and uncountable, plural incompressibilities)

  1. The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure
    Water has a high degree of incompressibility.
  2. (physics) The bulk modulus or modulus of incompressibility, measured in either electron volts or dynes per square centimeter.
    • 1997, Ignazio Bombaci, Physical Review C, volume 55, →DOI:
      The value 120 MeV for the incompressibility is unrealistically small when compared with the value ~180-240 MeV!