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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible;

as, the

contractibility

and dilatability of air

Arbuthnot.

Noun.

Possibility of being contracted; quality of suffering contraction; as the contractibility and dilatibility of air.

contractibility ‎(countable and uncountable, plural contractibilities)

The quality or degree of being contractible.

the contractibility and dilatability of air

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