incompressibility
nounEtymology From in- + compressibility.
1
The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure
- Water has a high degree of incompressibility.
2
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The bulk modulus or modulus of incompressibility, measured in either electron volts or dynes per square centimeter.
- The value 120 MeV for the incompressibility is unrealistically small when compared with the value ~180-240 MeV!1997, Ignazio Bombaci, Physical Review C, volume 55, →DOI: