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compressive Definition

com·pres·sive (-pres′iv)

adjective

compressing or tending to compress

compressive Related Forms
com·pres′·sively adverb
compressive Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • strength: Also the compressive strength of every fourth load of concrete is tested.
  • stress: The effect of compressive stresses in the masonry is taken into account in these tests.
  • loading: The constitutive behavior of a material under compressive loading has been fairly widely studied.
  • strain: Tensile face strains are predicted to reach 40 % of the foam compressive strain.
  • load: Uniform compressive loads that need not be equal are applied to the parallel sides.
  • force: The effect of induced compressive forces due to restrained thermal expansion.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: In fact, most of these films have internal stresses that are highly compressive ( tending to contract ).

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Here the crack continues to propagate, although the stresses in the rod become compressive.