incompressible

[in-kuhm-pres-uh-buhl] / ˌɪn kəmˈprɛs ə bəl /

ADJECTIVE

firm

Synonyms

WEAK

close close-grained compact compressed concentrated concrete condensed congealed dense fine-grained hard hardened heavy impenetrable impermeable impervious inelastic jelled nonporous refractory rigid set solid solidified stiff sturdy substantial thick tough unyielding

Example Sentences

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"And what we found was that at Mach 6, the turbulence behavior is pretty close to the incompressible flow."

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

Engineers describe these conditions as incompressible flow and compressible flow.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

Another important result involved the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the dynamics of incompressible fluids.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

Water and air are, to a good approximation, incompressible fluids, and the Navier-Stokes equations are used to design airplane wings and to model weather patterns and ocean currents.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

In the case of water, which is almost incompressible, this property is well marked, and unquestionably would be very nearly the same if water were wholly incompressible.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various