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Definition of Amenable

Amenable
Amenable A*me"na*ble, a. [F. amener to lead; ? (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace.] 1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] --Jacob. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. --I. Taylor. 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. --Carlyle.

Meaning of Amenable from wikipedia

- Look up amenable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amenable may refer to: Amenable group Amenable species Amenable number Amenable set Agreeableness...
- In mathematics, an amenable group is a locally compact topological group G carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant...
- groups when applied to amenable groups. Since finite groups and abelian groups are amenable, every elementary amenable group is amenable - however, the converse...
- Amenable species is a term used within the context of USDA's meat and poultry inspection program to signify exotic species (livestock and fowl not covered...
- An amenable number is a positive integer for which there exists a multiset of as many integers as the original number that both add up to the original...
- mathematics, specifically in functional analysis, a Banach algebra, A, is amenable if all bounded derivations from A into dual Banach A-bimodules are inner...
- L_{\alpha }} is an admissible set. Lα{\displaystyle L_{\alpha }} is called an amenable set if it is a standard model of KP set theory without the axiom of Δ0-collection...
- Teutonic and other traditions, as well as the household familiar, are more amenable to comparison. According to William Butler Yeats, the great wealth of the...
- contains no sperm. It is ****ociated with male infertility, but many forms are amenable to medical treatment. In humans, azoospermia affects about 1% of the male...
- In mathematics, the von Neumann conjecture stated that a group G is non-amenable if and only if G contains a subgroup that is a free group on two generators...