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Definition of Compressions
1. compression [n] - See also: compression
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compressions
Literary usage of Compressions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Changes of Temperature produced by compressions or Dilatations of a Fluid and by
Stresses of any kind in an Elastic Solid.—From thermodynamic theory* it is ..."
2. Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry by William Fogg Osgood, William Caspar Graustein (1921)
"Simple Elongations and compressions. Let the plane be stretched directly away
from the axis of x, so that each point is carried, along a parallel to the ..."
3. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld, William Nichols Barnard (1915)
"CHAPTER V. EXPANSIONS AND compressions OF GASES. 26. Volume Changes, (a) The law
of ideal gases expressed by Eq. (13) shows that there are three ..."
4. Experimental Researches Into the Properties and Motions of Fluids, with by William Ford Stanley (1881)
"I will leave the conditions of abstraction of volume and of minus compressions
in gravitation systems, active upon the surface of water, for consideration ..."
5. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"In a given animal repeated compressions give remarkably uniform results, ...
This holds true even when seven brief compressions are practised in close ..."
6. The Modern Gas-engine and the Gas-producer by Arvid Michael Levin (1909)
"Normal Efficiency and Economy for Varying compressions. The Compression Curve.—During
the compression of a gas- mixture, from its initial pressure at the ..."
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