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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{suffix|en|dent|able}}.

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Capable of being [[dent]]ed.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=Chris Butlin; Maureen Maybank|title=Physics on the move|page=31
|passage=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 &mdash; using equations and graphs.}}
# {{lb|en|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 <math>S(\lambda,\alpha)</math> = <math>\{y\in C\;|\; \lambda(y)\geq ||\lambda||_{\infty,C} - \alpha\}</math> for some <math>\lambda\in Y^*</math> and some <math>\alpha>0</math>.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1992|author=Gerald A. Edgar; Louis Sucheston|title=Stopping times and directed processes|page=225
|passage=It will be useful to observe that a nonempty bounded set C is '''dentable''' if its closed convex hull is dentable...}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|en|undentable
}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|dentability}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=abdeelnt|bandelet|end table|entabled}}