bulk modulus

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   the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume

   Broadercoefficient of elasticity

Questions about bulk modulus

What does bulk modulus mean?

bulk modulus means "the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume".

Is bulk modulus a common word?

bulk modulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.