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noun

engineering a tight fit of a collar or wheel boss on a shaft obtained by expanding the collar or boss by heating to enable it to be threaded onto the shaft and then allowing it to cool, or by freezing the shaft to reduce its diameter to enable it to be threaded into the collar or boss and then allowing the shaft temperature to rise

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Words nearby shrink fit

shrine, Shriner, shrink, shrinkage, shrinker, shrink fit, shrinking violet, shrink-wrap, shrive, shrivel, shriven

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How to use shrink fit in a sentence

Her magical ability to shrink people just by staring at them is also put to great use here.
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For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.
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Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.
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All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.
Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They would go to the store with a repackaged and shrink-wrapped broken item inside a new box and return it for full value.
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Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Great was the surprise of Alf at the honour and labour thus thrust upon him, but he did not shrink from it.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
The bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
I've seen more cloes on folks' backs hyar, thet wan't no more'n fit for carpet-rags, than any place ever I struck.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
“I went into a great passion and frightened my mother into a fit,” said Wardle.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens