squashable

squashable

English

Etymology

squash +‎ -able

Adjective

squashable (comparative more squashable, superlative most squashable)

1. Capable of being squashed.
   1. Capable of being compressed or squeezed.
      • 1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move (page 31)

        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 forced into submission.
      • 1940, Madelene Victoria MacAdam, Fortune in My Own Hands, page 36:

        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. (mathematics) Permitting a grouping of 2-cells in oppositely oriented identifiable pairs.
      • 2006, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems: Volume 16

        All other ergodic invariant Radon measures are squashable, and there are infinitely many such measures.

Related terms

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