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compressional

a. The quality of compression

Usage examples of "compressional".

It's apparently been subjected to huge tensile and compressional stresses.

Tensile and compressional stresses--tidal forces--are exactly what you expect if you fall down a classical black hole.

The storm had been blown away by a hot, compressional wind, leaving the concrete surface dry and clear.

Jets and upwellings from coriolis and compressional heating made the first thin kilometer of air tricky.

They communicated by producing compressional waves in the air with their eating and breathing organs.

Tensile and compressional stresses -- tidal forces -- are exactly what you expect if you fall down a classical black hole.