incompressible

English

Etymology

From French incompressible, from in- +‎ compressible

Adjective

incompressible (not comparable)

1. Not compressible.

Derived terms

• incompressibleness

Translations

not compressible

• Finnish: puristumaton
• French: incompressible (fr)
• German: inkompressibel (de)

• Italian: incomprimibile
• Swedish: inkompressibel (sv)

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French

Etymology

in- +‎ compressible

Adjective

incompressible (plural incompressibles)

1. incompressible
2. (law) For a penalty (peine incompressible): mandatory (period, minimum), ineligibility (period of parole ~)

Further reading

• “incompressible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).