0 to crush something into a flat shape: --
He accidentally sat on her hat and squashed it.
1 to push yourself, a person, or thing into a small space: --
2 to stop something from continuing to exist or happen, by forceful action: --
Rumours of a possible takeover of the company were soon squashed by the management.
4 a game played between two or four people on a special closed playing area that involves hitting a small rubber ball against a wall --
5 a drink made from fruit juice, water, and sugar or sweetener --
The activation function is also called the squashing function as it squashes the permissible amplitude range of the output signal to some finite value.
If the spring is being squashed and shortened, we say that the forces are compressive.
The particles of the gas have been squashed into a smaller volume.
Five per cent of flies were squashed and examined microscopically for insect and plant pathogens.
Probes were hybridized to polytene chromosome squashes of salivary glands from third-instar larvae.
Fish were examined by standard techniques for the presence of larval nematodes, supplemented by examination of organ squashes, tissue smears and digestion of tissue.
When does a set of rules become so involuted that it squashes the very dialogue it is formulated to promote?
We imagine the field lines squashed together, and the result is that they push the wires apart.
