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incompressible

/in-kuhm-pres-uh-buhl/US // ˌɪn kəmˈprɛs ə bəl //UK // (ˌɪnkəmˈprɛsəbəl) //

不可压缩的,不可压缩,不可压缩性,不可压缩

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not capable of being compressed.

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Examples

  • The outer layers of the star continue to fall inward, but as they hit this incompressible neutron core, they bounce off it, creating a shock wave.

  • In ordinary hydraulics, liquids are treated as absolutely incompressible.

  • Fluids are divided into liquids, or incompressible fluids, and gases, or compressible fluids.

  • Water is practically incompressible, so that the water at the bottom of the sea is no heavier than that near the surface.

  • To every proposition in electrostatics there is thus a corresponding one in the hydrokinetic theory of incompressible liquids.

  • Let a source of fluid be a point from which an incompressible fluid is emitted in all directions.