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Incompressible vs Incompressibility - What's the difference?

incompressible | incompressibility |

As an adjective incompressible

is not compressible.

As a noun incompressibility is

the quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.

incompressible

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not compressible.

    • incompressibility

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure
    • Water has a high degree of incompressibility .
  • (physics) The bulk modulus or modulus of incompressibility, measured in either electron volts or dynes per square centimeter.
  • *{{quote-journal, 1997, Ignazio Bombaci, , Physical Review C citation
    • , passage=The value 120 MeV for the incompressibility is unrealistically small when compared with the value ~180-240 MeV! }}