Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Serving to or able to compress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to compress; tending to compress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
compresses
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Examples
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Bond logs are often inconclusive and the longer cement has to hydrate and gain compressive strength, the higher the likelihood of a better log.
Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout Robert L. Cavnar 2010
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Bond logs are often inconclusive and the longer cement has to hydrate and gain compressive strength, the higher the likelihood of a better log.
Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout Robert L. Cavnar 2010
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Bond logs are often inconclusive and the longer cement has to hydrate and gain compressive strength, the higher the likelihood of a better log.
Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout Robert L. Cavnar 2010
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Bond logs are often inconclusive and the longer cement has to hydrate and gain compressive strength, the higher the likelihood of a better log.
Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout Robert L. Cavnar 2010
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These are a good example of the compressive strength of unreinforced concrete and the lack of tensile strength.
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Load bearing walls, muros de carga, rely upon the compressive strength of the blocks or bricks and not just the beams.
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Concrete has roughly 10 times more compressive strength than tensile strength.
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Concrete has roughly 10 times more compressive strength than tensile strength.
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Load bearing walls, muros de carga, rely upon the compressive strength of the blocks or bricks and not just the beams.
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Load bearing walls, muros de carga, rely upon the compressive strength of the blocks or bricks and not just the beams.
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