Definition of Overcompressed

1. Verb. (past of overcompress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overcompressed

1. overcompress [v] - See also: overcompress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcompressed

overcomplacency
overcomplete
overcompleteness
overcomplex
overcomplexities
overcomplexity
overcompliance
overcompliances
overcomplicate
overcomplicated
overcomplicates
overcomplicating
overcomplication
overcomplications
overcompress
overcompressed (current term)
overcompresses
overcompressing
overcompression
overconcentrated
overconcern
overconcerned
overconcerning
overconcerns
overconfidence
overconfidences
overconfident
overconfidently
overconnected
overconscientious

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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