"incompressible" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From French incompressible, from in- + compressible. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|incompressible}} French incompressible, {{prefix|en|in|compressible}} in- + compressible Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} incompressible (not comparable)
  1. Not compressible. Tags: not-comparable Translations (not compressible): несвиваем (nesvivaem) (Bulgarian), puristumaton (Finnish), incompressible (French), inkompressibel (German), απίεστος (apíestos) (Greek), incomprimibile (Italian), inkompressibel (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-incompressible-en-adj-l57O2EPC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 71 29 Disambiguation of 'not compressible': 98 2
  2. (calculus, of a vector field) Having a divergence equal to zero. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Calculus
    Sense id: en-incompressible-en-adj-nX~KUWzX Categories (other): English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 40 60 Topics: calculus, mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: incompressable, uncompressable, uncompressible Derived forms: incompressibleness

Alternative forms

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