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CONTRACTILITY

• CONTRACTILITY (noun)
The noun CONTRACTILITY has 1 sense:

1. the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter

Familiarity information: CONTRACTILITY used as a noun is very rare.

• CONTRACTILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("contractility" is a kind of...):

ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contractility"):

astringency; stypsis (the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids)

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