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Definition of Overcompressed
1. overcompress [v] - See also: overcompress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcompressed
Literary usage of Overcompressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Choosing a Wheelchair System edited by Seldon P. Todd, Jr. (1992)
"overcompressed cushions are said to "bottom out." At the other extreme, incompressible
cushions are ineffective in preventing pressure localization. ..."
2. Currents and Eddies in the English Romantic Generation by Frederick Erastus Pierce (1918)
"... German Romantiker not the overcompressed obscurity of Dante; yet Shelley's
vision at times grows curiously like the older and greater one: And then he ..."
3. Race Life of the Aryan Peoples by Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1907)
"Then again followed the law of reaction, and the recoil from the overcompressed
spring of Puritanism; and after the Puritan triumph and the Protectorate, ..."
4. Gun Making in the United States by Rogers Birnie (1907)
"... since, as might readily be shown, this pressure would cause the laminae near
the surface of the bore to be overcompressed in a radial direction. ..."
5. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Harvey Tschappat (1917)
"Since a is outside the safe area for the tube, it is seen that this cylinder will
be overcompressed at rest, if the gun is built under the limitations that ..."
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