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Compressive   Listen
adjective
Compressive  adj.  Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Compressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sustain the compressive thrust of heavy weights a form is used in this establishment of their own design, and to which the name of the "Phoenix column" has been given. They are tubes made from four or from eight sections rolled in the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various



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