| CONTRACTILE | • contractile adj. Capable of contracting, or of being contracted. • CONTRACTILE adj. having the power or property of contracting.
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| CONTRACTING | • contracting v. Present participle of contract. • contracting adj. Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
 • contracting n. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
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| CONTRACTION | • contraction n. A reversible reduction in size. • contraction n. (Economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
 • contraction n. (Biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use.
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| CONTRACTIVE | • contractive adj. Able to contract; contractile. • CONTRACTIVE adj. tending to contract.
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| CONTRACTIBLE | • contractible adj. Capable of contraction. • contractible adj. (Mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation.
 • CONTRACTIBLE adj. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTABLE.
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| CONTRACTIBLY | • CONTRACTIBLE adv. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTABLE. | 
| CONTRACTIONS | • contractions n. Plural of contraction. • CONTRACTION n. the act of contracting.
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| CONTRACTILITY | • contractility n. The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles). • contractility n. The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
 • contractility n. (Physiology) The performance of cardiac muscle. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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| CONTRACTIONAL | • contractional adj. Of or related to contraction. • CONTRACTIONAL adj. relating to contraction, also CONTRACTIONARY.
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| CONTRACTIVELY | • CONTRACTIVE adv. tending to contract. | 
| CONTRACTIONARY | • contractionary adj. Tending to cause contraction. • CONTRACTIONARY adj. relating to contraction, also CONTRACTIONAL.
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| PRECONTRACTING | • precontracting v. Present participle of precontract. • PRECONTRACT v. to contract in advance.
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| SUBCONTRACTING | • subcontracting v. Present participle of subcontract. • SUBCONTRACTING n. the act of subcontracting.
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| CONTRACTIBILITY | • contractibility n. The quality or degree of being contractible. • CONTRACTIBILITY n. the state of being contractible.
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| CONTRACTILITIES | • contractilities n. Plural of contractility. • CONTRACTILITY n. the quality of being contractile.
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| CONTRACTIVENESS | • CONTRACTIVE n. tending to contract. | 
| SUBCONTRACTINGS | • SUBCONTRACTING n. the act of subcontracting. |