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Webster 1913 Edition
Contractible
Con-tract′i-ble
,Adj.
Capable of contraction.
Small air bladders distable and
contractible
. Arbuthnot.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contractible
CONTRACTIBLE
,Adj.
Small air bladders, dilatable and contractible.
Definition 2024
contractible
contractible
English
Adjective
contractible (comparative more contractible, superlative most contractible)
- Capable of contraction
- (mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
Antonyms
- incontractible
- noncontractible
- uncontractible
Related terms
Translations
capable of contraction
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