contract
noun
an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
contractibility
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a word derived from
contract.
Example Sentences
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Rough and repulsive in appearance, and sluggish in habit, it has great power of contractibility.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Cells are endowed with the properties of irritability, contractibility, assimilation and reproduction, and it is thus plainly to the study of cells that we must look for an interpretation of life phenomena.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
And "Upon this hint" the brain acts in its consequent reflections, and in the nervous impulses which induce muscular contractibility.
From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various
But simple as it was it had all the fundamental properties of living things—irritability, contractibility, assimilation, and reproduction.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
What is contractibility without muscular fibre, or secretion without a secreting gland?
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
