compressable

English

Adjective

compressable (comparative more compressable, superlative most compressable)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative form of compressible
    • 1989, Sam Hanish, A treatise on acoustic radiation, page 433:
      Natural, or man-made, sources of sound consist in general of physical mechanisms which generate fluctuating volumes, or gradients of force, in a compressable medium.
    • 1999, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2924:
      […] a generally solid parallelepipedon of a compressable polymeric material that is beveled to define a plurality of movable wedge-shaped members having rhomboid-shaped opposed end walls […]

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