COMPRESSIBILITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does compressibility mean? • COMPRESSIBILITY (noun)
The noun COMPRESSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being able to occupy less space
Familiarity information: COMPRESSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COMPRESSIBILITY (noun)
Meaning:
The property of being able to occupy less space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
compressibility; squeezability; sponginess
Hypernyms ("compressibility" is a kind of...):
softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)
Antonym:
incompressibility (the property of being incompressible)
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