"shrink rate" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: shrink rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} shrink rate (plural shrink rates)
  1. (engineering) The percentage or fraction of an original size, weight, or mass that is lost when an object or material shrinks. Hypernyms: rate
    Sense id: en-shrink_rate-en-noun-5rOkTZIM Categories (other): Engineering Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  2. (business) The percentage or fraction of an original inventory that is left after reductions from theft, spoilage, evaporation, mislaying, and so on. Hypernyms: rate Related terms (inventory loss): loss prevention
    Sense id: en-shrink_rate-en-noun-ApVY2Wac Categories (other): Business, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79 Topics: business Disambiguation of 'inventory loss': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: shrinkage, shrink-wrap

Inflected forms

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