Meanings
comparative more compressable · superlative most compressable
- alternativeproscribedAlternative form of compressible.
Natural, or man-made, sources of sound consist in general of physical mechanisms which generate fluctuating volumes, or gradients of force, in a compressable medium.
1989, Sam Hanish, A treatise on acoustic radiation, page 4331 more example
[…] a generally solid parallelepipedon of a compressable polymeric material that is beveled to define a plurality of movable wedge-shaped members having rhomboid-shaped opposed end walls […]
1999, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2924
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