dentable

English

Etymology

dent +‎ -able

Adjective

dentable (comparative more dentable, superlative most dentable)

1. Capable of being dented.
   • 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. (mathematics, 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 $S(\lambda ,\alpha )$ = $\{y\in C\;|\;\lambda (y)\geq ||\lambda ||_{\infty ,C}-\alpha \}$ for some $\lambda \in Y^{*}$ and some $\alpha >0$.
   • 1992, Gerald A. Edgar, Louis Sucheston, Stopping times and directed processes, page 225:

     It will be useful to observe that a nonempty bounded set C is dentable if its closed convex hull is dentable...

Related terms

• dentability

Anagrams

• bandelet, end table, entabled