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compressibility factor

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compressibility factor [kəm‚pres·ə′bil·əd·ē ‚fak·tər]
(thermodynamics)
The product of the pressure and the volume of a gas, divided by the product of the temperature of the gas and the gas constant; this factor may be inserted in the ideal gas law to take into account the departure of true gases from ideal gas behavior. Also known as deviation factor; gas-deviation factor; supercompressibility factor.
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