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Meaning of "compressibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPRESSIBILITY

compressibility  [kəmˌprɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPRESSIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compressibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPRESSIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Compressibility

In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, compressibility is a measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure change. where V is volume and p is pressure.

Definition of compressibility in the English dictionary

The definition of compressibility in the dictionary is the ability to be compressed. Other definition of compressibility is the reciprocal of the bulk modulus; the ratio of volume strain to stress at constant temperature k.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPRESSIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPRESSIBILITY

comprehensive
comprehensive school
comprehensively
comprehensiveness
comprehensivise
comprehensivize
compress
compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressible
compressibleness
compression
compression ratio
compression-ignition engine
compressional
compressive
compressor
compressor program
compressure

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPRESSIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of compressibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «compressibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPRESSIBILITY

Find out the translation of compressibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compressibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compressibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

压缩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compresibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

compressibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दबाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانضغاطية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сжимаемость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compressibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

compressibility
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compressibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebolehmampatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kompressibilität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

圧縮率
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

압축성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kompresibilitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nén
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுருக்கத்தன்மையின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संकीर्णता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıkıştırılabilme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compressibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ściśliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стисливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compresibilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπιεστότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

saampersbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kompressibilitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kompressibilitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compressibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRESSIBILITY»

The term «compressibility» is regularly used and occupies the 78.787 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRESSIBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «compressibility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «compressibility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compressibility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPRESSIBILITY»

Discover the use of compressibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compressibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Compressibility of Sandstones
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the elastic volumetric response of sandstones to variations in stress.
R.W. Zimmerman, 1990
2
Compressibility, Turbulence and High Speed Flow
The book provides the reader with the necessary background and current trends in the theoretical and experimental aspects of compressible turbulent flows and compressible turbulence.
Thomas B. Gatski, Jean-Paul Bonnet, 2013
3
Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils
of saturation; however, it simplifies the comparison of the compressibility components. Effects of Free Air on the Compressibility of the Mixture Figure 8.4 shows that the compressibility of an air- water mixture is predominantly influenced by the ...
D. G. Fredlund, Harianto Rahardjo, 1993
4
Engineering Geology
In clay soils, because of their low permeability, the rate of consolidation is slow. Further consolidation may occur due to a rearrangement of the soil particles. This secondary consolidation is usually much less significant. The compressibility of a  ...
F G Bell, 2007
5
High Resolution Chromatography : A Practical Approach: A ...
2.6.3 Solvent compressibility and flow isolation With a conventional HPLC reciprocating pumping system utilizing low pressure proportioning and mixing, solvent channels may be isolated by the low pressure proportioning valves. No solvent ...
Paul Millner, 1999
6
Poromechanics: Proceedings of the 1st Biot conference
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif., USA ABSTRACT: The unjacketed pore compressibility in a porous rock is the change in pore volume due to change in pore pressure for constant differential pressure. This parameter affects ...
J.F. Thimus, et al, 1998
7
Effects of Permeability and Compressibility on Liquefaction ...
This is due to significant differences in concurrent pore pressure generation and dissipation around the cone tip during penetration in low permeable silty sands compared to highly permeable sand.
Nurhan Ecemis, 2008
8
Powder Metallurgy Technology
This corresponds to the presence of an excessive amount of frictional surface area. 3.8 Compressibility Compressibility is a measure to which a powder will compress or densify upon application of external pressure. Compressibility is reported ...
G. S. Upadhyaya, 1997
9
Bilayer Lipid Membranes. Structure and Mechanical Properties
3.5 The elasticity modulus of the volume compressibility K of liposomes The study of volume compressibility of lipid membranes is an important part of membrane mechanics. Studying this parameter is interesting because, in this case, ...
Tibor Hianik, Victor Ivanovich Passechnik, 1995
10
Aluminum: Properties and Physical Metallurgy
COMPRESSIBILITY Vaidya and Kennedy (Ref 68) determined the volume compression of aluminum of 99.999% purity to 45 kbar. The ratios of volume at high pressure to volume at ambient pressure are given in the following table: PrMsura, ...
John E. Hatch, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPRESSIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compressibility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Research clarifies the physics of water repelling surfaces
This is because as the contact angle approaches 180°, the compressibility of water close to the surface diverges to infinity. "At a microscopic ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Viscose speciality fibres – bio-based fibres for filtration
As expected, filter cakes from longer fibres, which had a higher porosity, were more compressible. Furthermore, compressibility increased with ... «Filtration + Separation, Jun 15»
3
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Awards $100000 Grand …
... and complex processing, the 3dim solution exploits the compressibility of 3D signals to reduce power, cost and complexity of 3D acquisition. «India New England, Jun 15»
4
Deciding if Flash Storage is Right for your Data Center
Accurate workload modeling for flash will need to emulate your workload, control the duplicability of the data content, control the compressibility ... «ITProPortal, Jun 15»
5
Milviz - P-38L Released
One of the most serious problems that plagued the P-38 was that of aerodynamic compressibility. Essentially, during very high-speed flight and ... «FlightSim.com, Jun 15»
6
Demand from Pharmaceutical Industry to Drive Global …
... in pharmaceutical applications owing to properties such as efficient binding ability, significant compressibility, and high internal porosity. «Medgadget.com, Jun 15»
7
Microcrystalline cellulose: demand from pharmaceutical industry to …
... in pharmaceutical applications owing to properties such as efficient binding ability, significant compressibility, and high internal porosity. «WhaTech, Jun 15»
8
Discovery Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips
computer chip A property known as 3-D negative electronic compressibility, observed for the first time in research conducted, in part, at SLAC ... «Lab Manager | News, Jun 15»
9
Institution denied where Petitioner failed to show how prior art …
Varying the cell size can create compressibility, expansion characteristics, radial strength, and contour for the frame. The frame has a tri-level ... «Lexology, Jun 15»
10
Exploiting the Effectiveness of Pressure for Studying the Structure …
... in proton conductivity, negative linear compressibility, and also phase transitions, which produce porous structures. As a result, high-pressure ... «Azom.com, Jun 15»

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