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Definition of Contractibility
1. n. Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
Definition of Contractibility
1. Noun. The quality or degree of being contractible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contractibility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractibility
Literary usage of Contractibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death by Xavier Bichat, Tobias Watkins (1809)
"We should adopt therefore elasticity or insensible organic contractibility as
the general character of all the living parts, and contractibility of texture ..."
2. Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner (1854)
"COMPRESSIBILITY AND contractibility. 89. Compression diminishes the bulk and
augments the density* — The quality in virtue of which a body allows its volume ..."
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