squashable

Capable of being squashed.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being squashed.
    • Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have all added to safety, but how? To answer that you will need to recall some GCSE physics...

    1. Capable of being compressed or squeezed.

    2. Capable of being forced into submission.

      • Katherine always tries to squash me, but, you know, I'm not the squashable sort, really." With all my naughtiness; temper, wilfulness, independence, extreme frankness and being whimsical, I listened to reason and was,...

    3. (mathematics) Permitting a grouping of 2-cells in oppositely oriented identifiable pairs.

      • All other ergodic invariant Radon measures are squashable, and there are infinitely many such measures. - 2006, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems: Volume 16:

Origin

From squash + -able.

Forms

more squashable most squashable

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