Contractibility :: Contractibility (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air..

Contractible :: Contractible (a.) Capable of contraction.

Contractibleness :: Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.

Contractile :: Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues..

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Contracting :: Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrac.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) A marriage contract.

Contractive :: Contractive (a.) Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

Precontracting :: Precontracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Precontrac.

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