compressibility

[ kuhm-pres-uh-bil-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural com·press·i·bil·i·ties

the quality or state of being compressible.
Physics. the reciprocal of the bulk modulus, equal to the ratio of the fractional change in volume to the stress applied to a body.

compressibility

/ kəmˌprɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ /

the ability to be compressed
physics the reciprocal of the bulk modulus; the ratio of volume strain to stress at constant temperature k

First recorded in 1685–95; compressible ( def ) + -ity

This can be done in varying degrees with all solids, but liquids, generally, have little compressibility.

Piezometer, pī-e-zom′e-tėr, n. an instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Some limits are necessarily imposed upon this compressibility of working effort.

Mention three illustrations of the compressibility and expansibility of air that you know from your own experience.

Evidence of compressibility of gases and incompressibility of liquids.

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