Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of contraction.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of contraction
- adj. mathematics (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of contraction.
Examples
“I may be wrong here, but as far as I am aware; avian flu is not easily contractible by humans atm…What people are worried about is what will happen when the flu mutates evolves.”
AMA Op-Ed: living in "loopy times," and what medical professionals can do - The Panda's Thumb
“So contractible and tough is the skin, that once the point of the harpoon is embedded in it, nothing but a strong and direct tug will release it.”
“It is not enough for the victim to be unable to move from place to place beneath the soil: in addition to this, the contractible power in its sturdy muscular organism must be suppressed.”
“If there is a very short non-contractible circle in your compactification, strings can be winding around it many times.”
“It makes no sense at this point to talk about the most contractible issue.”
“However, in the homotopy group is not null homotpic, which is equivalent to the fact that the sphere is not contractible.”
“Since all known bodies are contractible into less space by depriving them of some portion of their heat, and as there is no part of nature totally deprived of heat, there is reason to believe that the particles of bodies do not touch, but are held towards each other by their self - attraction, and recede from each other by their attraction to the mass of heat which surrounds them; and thus exist in an equilibrium between these two powers.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
“The TRC and the Department of Justice jointly understand that no part or process of the commission can be haphazardly concluded, and for this reason the TRC will still be contractible in Cape Town on”
“In regard to the pure question of the sufficiency of your salary, they hint in the kindest manner that all expenditures are contractible as well as extensible.”
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