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What is the adjective for compressible?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb compress which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

compressible
  1. able to be compressed
  2. (surface) 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.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. spongy, soft, cushioned, cushiony, squashy, springy, flabby, mushy, squishy, squooshy, light, spongiform, spongiose, squidgy, rubbery, doughy, flaccid, soft-sided, tender, downy, fleshy, cushy, cushionlike, plushy, plush, pulpy, gelatinous, yielding, not hard, supple … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Non-biological stromatolite-like structures are more random, less patterned and therefore less compressible.”
      “However, the main disadvantage is that air, being highly compressible, takes up the majority of the space in the tanks.”
      “At the end of this pregnancy period, the egg is laid fairly painlessly, thanks to the spongy and slightly compressible shell.”
compressed
  1. Pressed tightly together.
  2. Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. compacted, compact, concentrated, squeezed, squashed, flattened, crushed, constricted, close-packed, closely packed, tightly packed, jam-packed, packed down, packed close, pressed together, packed together, dense, thick, packed, crowded, tight, close, serried, solid, condensed, impenetrable, impermeable, packed in, thickset, firm, jammed, pressed, jammed together, crammed, substantial, massed, piled, bunched, appressed, consolidated, closely set, unyielding, hard, cramped, congested, short, rammed, blocky, cropped, circumscribed … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “At every station, more passengers got in until we were wedged more tightly than the most compressed sardines.”
      “A long dialogue can be compressed into a few key lines.”
compressable
  1. Alternative form of compressible
compressional
  1. The quality of compression
  2. Examples:
      3. “The fibrous layer, which is made of aragonite and organic material, is elastic only under compressional stress.”
      “The Delamerian Orogen is a compressional orogen developed by westward vergent folds and thrust faults.”
      “Bent specimens show folds on the compressional but not the extensional side, indicating that walls were originally flexible.”
compressionless
  1. Without compression.
compressive
  1. That compresses
  2. Synonyms:
      3. constrictive, contractive, binding, compacting, cramping, crushing, packing, pressing, squashing, squeezing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The compressive force applied to the material caused it to shrink in size.”
      “The wound was closed in layers, and a compressive dressing was applied with the ankle in slight plantar flexion.”
      “During the compressive phase, the glottis is closed and the expiratory muscles start to contract.”
compressing
  1. present participle of compress
  2. Synonyms:
      3. compacting, condensing, contracting, constricting, constringing, collapsing, capsulizing, capsuling, scrunching, telescoping, flattening, narrowing, tightening, concentrating, coarcting, coarctating, consolidating, narrowing down, squeezing, shrinking, restricting, drawing in, cramping, becoming narrower, straitening, tensing, circumscribing, clenching, tautening, restraining, pinching, making smaller, making narrower, choking, strangling, strangulating, confining, tucking, astringing, becoming tighter, becoming smaller, drawing together, squashing, flexing, pressing together, packing into, diminishing, tapering, making tighter, reducing … more
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