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dentable en · ADJ

Etymology

From dent + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being dented.
   • 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. 1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move, page 31:
2. (of a closed convex subset C of a Banach space Y) Admitting slices of arbitrarily small diameter, where a slice of C is a subset of the form S(λ,α) = y∈C;|;λ(y)≥||λ||_(∞,C)-α for some λ∈Y^* and some α>0.
   • It will be useful to observe that a nonempty bounded set C is dentable if its closed convex hull is dentable... 1992, Gerald A. Edgar, Louis Sucheston, Stopping times and directed processes, page 225:

Forms

Deriveds

undentable

Relateds

dentability