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incompressible

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From French incompressible, from in- + compressible.

  1. Not compressible.

    As water [trapped in the cylinders] is incompressible, a momentary leap in [steam] pressure is liable to occur in starting; […].

  2. Having a divergence equal to zero.