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Definition of Incoercible

1. a. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Definition of Incoercible

1. Adjective. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced. ¹

2. Adjective. (physics of a gas) Not capable of being reduced to liquid form by pressure. ¹

3. Adjective. (physics archaic) That cannot be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; said of heat, light, electricity, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incoercible

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Incoercible

1. 1. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced. 2. Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; said of any gas above its critical point; also particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or pressure. 3. That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc. Origin: Pref. In- not + coercible: cf. F. Incoercible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incoercible

Literary usage of Incoercible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"F. incoercible; I. incoercibile ; S. incoercible ... The quality or state of an incoercible body. Z. fluid. An old term for the agents of heat, electricity, ..."

2. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"incoercible, a. incoercible. Incoherence, /. incoherence, incoherency. Incoherent, a. incoherent. ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"When the fracture in spite of every form of dressing remains either irreducible or incoercible, the seat of injury should be laid bare by incision, ..."

4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1894)
"For three months she had suffered from incoercible vomiting, which had not occurred in previous pregnancies. She was admitted into the service of Moret, ..."

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