Squashable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Capable of being squashed.; Capable of being compressed or squeezed.
"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 and learn more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs."
- 2 Capable of being squashed.; 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, in the end, submissive."
- 3 Capable of being squashed.; 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."
Example
More examples"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 and learn more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs."
Etymology
From squash + -able.
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