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Definition of Incompact
1. a. Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete.
Definition of Incompact
1. Adjective. Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; incoherent or loose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incompact
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompact
Literary usage of Incompact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts (1855)
"... slaty, forges and mills, incompact, blast furnaces, regular „ specular, forges,
crystallised, furnaces, reedy, granular, compact, blast furnaces. mixed ..."
2. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"When employed for decks it is somewhat objectionable on account of its large,
incompact grain, which causes the growth rings to separate or split away from ..."
3. Lead Refining by Electrolysis by Anson Gardner Betts (1908)
"... the separation of a solid instead of incompact deposit, as will be seen later.
The next proposition for refining lead is seen in patent specifications. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for by Nathan Clifford, William Henry Clifford (1880)
"... scale- like form, which renders the rasped glue a loose, light, open, incompact
mass, and of a character to remain so until quite dissolved. ..."
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