Incompressible [adjective]

The outer layers of the star continue to fall inward, but as they hit this incompressible neutron core, they bounce off it, creating a shock wave.

In ordinary hydraulics, liquids are treated as absolutely incompressible.

Fluids are divided into liquids, or incompressible fluids, and gases, or compressible fluids.

Water is practically incompressible, so that the water at the bottom of the sea is no heavier than that near the surface.

To every proposition in electrostatics there is thus a corresponding one in the hydrokinetic theory of incompressible liquids.

Let a source of fluid be a point from which an incompressible fluid is emitted in all directions.

It is assumed on all sides that the ether is a continuous, incompressible body, possessing rigidity and elasticity.

In fact, if enclosed, it becomes more incompressible than steel, without in any way losing its fluidity.

This piston is pierced with a small hole, through which the incompressible liquid passes as the piston moves.

From repulsion are derived compressible and incompressible, resilient and irresilient.