Synonyms

1. compressing

Sentence Examples

1. But I did not fail to perceive that these latter calculations are founded altogether on our experimental knowledge of the properties of air, and the mechanical laws regulating its dilation and compression, in what may be called, comparatively speaking, the immediate vicinity of the earth itself and, at the same time, it is taken for granted that animal life is and must be essentially incapable of modification at any given unattainable distance from the surface.
2. White is a compression of all the colors in the spectrum.
3. Valz, that this apparent condensation of volume has its origin in the compression of the same ethereal medium I have spoken of before, and which is only denser in proportion to its solar vicinity?
4. Unless for default of this renovation, I could see no reason, therefore, why life could not be sustained even in a vacuum for the expansion and compression of chest, commonly called breathing, is action purely muscular, and the cause, not the effect, of respiration.