compressional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Sound is transmitted through the air by compressional waves."
Etymology
Etymology tree English compression Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English compressional From compression + -al.
Inflected Forms
more compressional (comparative)
most compressional (superlative)