Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dentable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dentable
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being dented.

adj

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.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From dent + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dent

Inflected Forms

more dentable (comparative) most dentable (superlative)

Derived Forms

undentable

Frequently Paired Words

dentability

Questions

What does dentable mean?: Capable of being dented.
Where does dentable come from?: From dent + -able.

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