incompressible
adjective
in·com·press·ible
ˌin-kəm-ˈpre-sə-bəl 
: incapable of or resistant to compression
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Perhaps the oldest and most prominent of these equations, formulated by Leonhard Euler more than 250 years ago, describe the flow of an ideal, incompressible fluid: a fluid with no viscosity, or internal friction, that cannot be forced into a smaller volume.
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Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
Because the fluid is incompressible, the movement of the larger cylinder must match that of the smaller one.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
Most hydraulic equipment uses some sort of incompressible fluid to help create optimal force.
—Stephanie Toone, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021
Some of my own real-world testing demonstrated a five-percent performance hit when using inline LZ4 compression on completely incompressible data but a 27-percent performance win on a Windows Server ISO—and that was on very fast SSD storage.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
The Web browsing workload—16 parallel downloads of a 128KB incompressible file, rate-limited to 1Mbps by sleeping in between operations as necessary—is the key to measuring network performance.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
Bumps in the road were dampened by the incompressible fluid squeezing the compressible gas in the spheres.
—The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
Initially, the moving air, which behaves as an incompressible flow in the open-ended AirDancer, creates enough pressure to inflate the tube.
—Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 17 Oct. 2017
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Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
Because the fluid is incompressible, the movement of the larger cylinder must match that of the smaller one.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
Most hydraulic equipment uses some sort of incompressible fluid to help create optimal force.
—Stephanie Toone, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021
Some of my own real-world testing demonstrated a five-percent performance hit when using inline LZ4 compression on completely incompressible data but a 27-percent performance win on a Windows Server ISO—and that was on very fast SSD storage.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
The Web browsing workload—16 parallel downloads of a 128KB incompressible file, rate-limited to 1Mbps by sleeping in between operations as necessary—is the key to measuring network performance.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
Bumps in the road were dampened by the incompressible fluid squeezing the compressible gas in the spheres.
—The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
Initially, the moving air, which behaves as an incompressible flow in the open-ended AirDancer, creates enough pressure to inflate the tube.
—Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 17 Oct. 2017
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incompressible
adjective
in·com·press·ible
ˌin-kəm-ˈpres-ə-bəl
: impossible or difficult to compress
incompressibility
noun
-ˌpres-ə-ˈbil-ət-ē
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