"contractible" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more contractible [comparative], most contractible [superlative]
Etymology: contract + -ible Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|contract|ible}} contract + -ible Head templates: {{en-adj}} contractible (comparative more contractible, superlative most contractible)
  1. Capable of contraction Translations (capable of contraction): свиваем (svivaem) (Bulgarian), contrattile (Italian), contraibile (Italian), so-chraplagh (Manx)
    Sense id: en-contractible-en-adj-IKDkFQkn Disambiguation of 'capable of contraction': 98 2
  2. (mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-contractible-en-adj-pKDs9LDs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ible Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ible: 9 91 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: weakly contractible Related terms: contractable

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      "word": "свиваем"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "capable of contraction",
      "word": "contrattile"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capable of contraction",
      "word": "contraibile"
    },
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "capable of contraction",
      "word": "so-chraplagh"
    }
  ],
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