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contractive

/kuhn-trak-tiv/US // kənˈtræk tɪv //

收缩性,契约性,契约性的,契约型

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving or tending to contract.
    • : capable of contracting.

Examples

  • The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.

  • And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.

  • For there are Bohemians even among gypsies; everything in this life being relative and socially-contractive.

  • There must always be contractive elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists.