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compressible

compressible adjective: able to be compressed.

Adjective

compressible (comparative more compressible, superlative most compressible)

  1. Able to be compressed.
    1. 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.

compressible meaning in Tamil and Kannada

compressible in Tamil

அமுக்கப்படுமியல்புள்ள, அமுக்கப்படுமியல்புடைய, நெருக்கத்தகு, அமுங்கு, அழுந்தும்

compressible in Kannada

ಹದಿಗಿಸಬಹುದಾದ, ಇರಿಕಿಸಬಹುದಾದ, ಒತ್ತಬಹುದಾದ

Antonyms of compressible

Forms of compressible

comparativemore compressible
superlativemost compressible

Origin of compressible

From compress + -ible. Compare French compressible and Latin compressibilis.

Words formed from compressible

Questions about compressible

What does compressible mean?
Compressible means able to be compressed.
What is compressible in Tamil?
Compressible in Tamil is அமுக்கப்படுமியல்புள்ள, அமுக்கப்படுமியல்புடைய, நெருக்கத்தகு. See Compressible meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is compressible?
Compressible is an adjective.

Words near compressible in the dictionary

  1. compresses
  2. compressest
  3. compresseth
  4. compressibilities
  5. compressibility
  6. compressible
  7. compressibleness
  8. compressibly
  9. compressing
  10. compressingly
  11. compression

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compressible (page history and authors); compressible (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compressible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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