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- Dictionarycom·pres·si·bil·i·ty/kəmˌpresəˈbilədē/
noun
- 1. the capacity of something to be flattened or reduced in size by pressure: "calcification decreases compressibility of the arteries"
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Measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure change
In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure change. In its simple form, the compressibility κ {\displaystyle \kappa } (denoted β in some fields) may be expressed as Wikipedia