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Meaning of INCOERCIBLE

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\In`co*er"ci*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + coercible:
cf. F. incoercible.]
1. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

2. (Physics) 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. (Physics) That can note be confined in, or excluded from,
   vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the
   imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.

 

 

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