Associations to the word «Compressible»

Wiktionary

COMPRESSIBLE, adjective. Able to be compressed
COMPRESSIBLE, adjective. (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.

Dictionary definition

COMPRESSIBLE, adjective. Capable of being compressed or made more compact; "compressible packing materials"; "a compressible box".
COMPRESSIBLE, adjective. Capable of being easily compressed.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope