contractive

Examples

• All

• I'm doing like lots of little tiny creases in order to approximate that contractive mapping, contractive folding.

• The contractive forces within the material caused it to shrink significantly during the cooling process.

• Feasibility is simply determined by the product of all minimum weights, which must be less (less than or equal) than unity for a stabilizable and contractive (invariant) polytope, and a corresponding switching signal.

  Academic text (2010)

• Using a contractive technique can help in minimizing the size of a design or graphic element.

Synonyms

C

constrictive

vscontractive

2 6.2

Making something tight so it is hard to move

focuses on reducing overall size rather than mainly tightening or restricting

C

contractile

vscontractive

• Specialized

1 7.4

Able to get smaller by tightening, like muscle tissue

tends to cause reduction rather than simply having the ability to shorten

C

contractible

vscontractive

1 7.0

Can get smaller when it tightens or gets cold

is about causing reduction rather than being passively reducible

C

contractionary

vscontractive

• Specialized

8.2

That causes muscles or tissues to become tighter and shorter

is a general tendency to reduce size, not limited to medical use

Antonyms

E

expansive

1 5.8

Able to get larger and take up more space

How Contractive

to collapse

645 3.9

contractive

7.3

expansive

1 5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology