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Squishable vs Squashable - What's the difference?

squishable | squashable |

As adjectives the difference between squishable and squashable

is that squishable is able to be squished or compressed while squashable is capable of being squashed.

squishable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be squished or compressed
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 15, author=Henry Fountain, title=How a Vast Ice Sheet Put the Squeeze on Earth (and Its Gravity), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=To use a very unscientific term, the earth is squishable . }}
  • *March 2003 , Backpacker - Vol. 31, No. 211
    • On group trips, we like to bring a squishable football. It's light (just a few ounces), packable, and universally popular: Who doesn't love a game of two-hand touch in the great outdoors?

    Derived terms

    *squishably

    squashable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being squashed.
  • * 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.
  • (mathematics)
  • * 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

    * squashability