present participle of contract

Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.

The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. / Work done on a contract basis.

plural of contracting

A reversible reduction in size. / (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth. / (biology) A shortening of a muscle during its use.

(law) An agreement entered into between two parties for the exchange of a current performance by one for a future bequest by the other.

plural of will contract

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

simple past tense and past participle of contract

(not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement. / Made smaller by contraction. / Incurred; acquired.