0 present participle of squash
1 to crush something into a flat shape:
He accidentally sat on her hat and squashed it.
3 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.
My sandwiches had got squashed at the bottom of my bag.
The fruit had got squashed under the weight of all the other food.
One of the other kids had squashed her model and she was very upset.
The entire alimentary tract was dissected out and the mid and hind gut contents examined separately by squashing.
This elevation of the free surface partially negates the squashing of vortex tubes by the orography.
The activation function is also called the squashing function as it squashes the permissible amplitude range of the output signal to some finite value.
The total number of cells was determined by counting nuclei, if necessary after gentle squashing and spreading of embryos.
