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COMPRESSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compressible mean?
• COMPRESSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective COMPRESSIBLE has 2 senses:
1. capable of being compressed or made more compact
2. capable of being easily compressed
Familiarity information: COMPRESSIBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being compressed or made more compact
Context example:
a compressible box
Similar:
compressed (reduced in volume by pressure)
Antonym:
incompressible (incapable of being compressed; resisting compression)
Derivation:
compress (squeeze or press together)
compressibility (the property of being able to occupy less space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being easily compressed
Synonyms:
compressible; squeezable
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Derivation:
compress (squeeze or press together)
compressibility (the property of being able to occupy less space)
Context examples
Such a concentration of rage and scorn as darkened her face, and flashed in her jet-black eyes, I could not have thought compressible even into that face.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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