contractible
The English word “contractible” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Capable of contraction
- (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
Etymology
From contract + -ible.
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More English words
- contractedly
- contractedness
- contractee
- contractibility
- contractibleness
- contractibly
- contractile
- contractile vacuole
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