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capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
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| contractility |
the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
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| contraction |
(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) compression: the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'" the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
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| containment |
a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975" (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
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catalysis: acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced"
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