Definition of Shrinkages

1. shrinkage [n] - See also: shrinkage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrinkages

shrinelike
shrines
shrining
shrink
shrink-wrap
shrink-wrapped
shrink-wrapped software
shrink-wrapping
shrink-wraps
shrink away
shrink back
shrink from
shrink up
shrinkable
shrinkages (current term)
shrinked
shrinker
shrinkers
shrinking
shrinking violet
shrinkingly
shrinks
shrinkwrap
shrinkwrap license
shrinkwrap licenses
shrinkwrapped
shrinkwrapping
shrinkwraps
shrinky

Literary usage of Shrinkages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's Guide: A Treatise on Brass Founding by James Larkin (1892)
"The general laws regarding shrinkages are presented by Mr. Alfred E. Watkins as follows: The most metal in a mass always shrinks last; hence, ..."

2. The Elastic Strength of Guns by Philip Rounseville Alger (1916)
"... to divide the whole length into a number of sections for each of which a separate computation of the elastic strength and shrinkages must be made. ..."

3. The Elastic Strength of Guns by Philip Rounseville Alger (1916)
"... to divide the whole length into a number of sections for each of which a separate computation of the elastic strength and shrinkages must be made. ..."

4. Bulletin by Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Ohio State Geologist (1910)
"The linear shrinkages, with one exception (clay E), check the volume shrinkages in so far as they show a general decrease of shrinkage by the heating. ..."

5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1895)
"Table XVII. has in the first two columns the same silicons and shrinkages as the half-inch square bars in Chart XV., and arranged against these shrinkages ..."

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