compressable

Etymology

adj

1. Alternative form of compressible
   Natural, or man-made, sources of sound consist in general of physical mechanisms which generate fluctuating volumes, or gradients of force, in a compressable medium. 1989, Sam Hanish, A treatise on acoustic radiation, page 433
   […] a generally solid parallelepipedon of a compressable polymeric material that is beveled to define a plurality of movable wedge-shaped members having rhomboid-shaped opposed end walls […] 1999, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2924