Definition of "contractible" []

• Capable of contraction (adjective)
• (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation (adjective)

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• "I may be wrong here, but as far as I am aware; avian flu is not easily contractible by humans atm…What people are worried about is what will happen when the flu mutates evolves."
• "So contractible and tough is the skin, that once the point of the harpoon is embedded in it, nothing but a strong and direct tug will release it."
• "It is not enough for the victim to be unable to move from place to place beneath the soil: in addition to this, the contractible power in its sturdy muscular organism must be suppressed."