- Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or
forced. - Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid
by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also
particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide,
formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or
pressure. - That can note be confined in, or excluded from,
vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable
fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.
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