Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COM-PRESS-I-BIL'I-TY
COM-PRESS-I-BIL'I-TY, n.
The quality of being compressible, or yielding to pressure; the quality of being capable of compression into a smaller space or compass; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids, or of any soft substance.
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