compressible
adjEtymology From compress + -ible. Compare French compressible and Latin compressibilis.
1
Able to be compressed.
2
Mathematics, Sciences, Topology Of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold, containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
- Derived terms
- compressibility, compressibleness, compressibly, noncompressible, pseudocompressible, uncompressable, uncompressible
- Related terms
- compress, compressor