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compressible, a.|kəmˈprɛsɪb(ə)l|
[f. compress v. + -ible; the form of the suffix is owing to the vb. being referred to L. compress-us; derivation from L. compressāre, F. compresser, would give compressable: cf. pressable. So mod.F. compressible.]
That may be compressed; capable of compression.
a1691Boyle Wks. (1772) III. 508 Not..to conclude that the air is so much more rarefiable than compressible. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 442 Permanently-elastic fluids are all compressible. 1855J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon II. xxvi. 481 You will have to restrain and combat the two least compressible forces in the political world. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 794 Both layers were..in a state of tension..the one [layer]..was but slightly extensible or compressible.
b. Of the pulse: see quot.
1865Pall Mall G. 12 May 1 The physicians have an expression which they apply to a feverish pulse which appears to vanish under the pressure of the finger; they call it a compressible pulse. 1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 159 The slow pulse is sometimes moderately full, but is always very soft and compressible.
Hence compressibleness.
1730–6Bailey, Compressibility, compressibleness, capableness to be pressed close. Hence in Johnson, etc. |