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
- : 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.
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