Examples of 'contractible' in a sentence
Meaning of "contractible"
contractible (adjective): Able to be reduced or made smaller, such as a muscle or a legal agreement that can be altered or adjusted
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- Capable of contraction
- (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
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The rings are radially contractible and expandable.
Contractible spaces are always simply connected.
The first is that of homotopy contractible complexes.
Every contractible space is simply connected.
Coming from horizontal lifts of contractible loops γ.
All illnesses contractible from eating raw fish.
Then this space is weakly contractible.
Equipped with unique contractible reflector for fabulous effects.
Spaces that are homotopy equivalent to a point are called contractible.
Put red contractible paper with a high surveillance label.
They are also called contractible types.
A contractible space is precisely one with the homotopy type of a point.
The implant of the device is contractible prior to being implanted in a bone.
The handle may or may not be expansible and contractible.
One can ask whether all contractible manifolds are homeomorphic to a ball.
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The electric control pump or valve may be thermal contractible.
Locally contractible spaces.
It follows that all the homotopy groups of a contractible space are trivial.
Contractible topological space.
Locally contractible space.
Therefore any space with a nontrivial homotopy group cannot be contractible.
The polymeric matrix is expandable or contractible upon treatment with an enzyme.
Contractible spaces are not necessarily locally contractible nor vice versa.
It is certainly not contractible.
The sleeve is contractible from its expanded position by releasing the low pressure fluid.
A disposable undergarment may comprise one or more elastically contractible waistbands.
A space X is contractible if the identity map on X is homotopic to a constant map.
The elastic members can be secured in an contractible condition in at least two ways.
The disposable undergarment preferably also comprises legbands which are elastically contractible.
A quotient space of a simply connected or contractible space need not share those properties.
The central portion interconnects the first and second apposition portions and is selectively longitudinally contractible.
The elastic members can be secured in an elastically contractible condition in several ways.
Geometry of contractible low-dimensional affine varietes.
It makes no sense at this point to talk about the most contractible issue.
Any fiber bundle over a contractible CW-complex is trivial.
The local homomorphisms are all injective for a covering by contractible open sets.
Illustration of some contractible and non-contractible spaces.
Any topological space which deformation retracts to a point is contractible and vice versa.
Intuitively, a contractible space is one that can be continuously shrunk to a point.
Such a material and the shunt generally is not contractible after expansion.
More generally, any contractible space has a trivial fundamental group.
CW complexes are locally contractible.
A square is a contractible topological space, which implies that it has trivial homology.
The gripping means may be circumferentially contractible and expansible and axially deformable.
In particular, the universal covering of such a space is contractible.
In a further alternative embodiment, a contractible and expandable mandrel is applied.
Contractible portion 56 of the plunger is capable of withstanding the axial load of a typical injection.
Alternatively the polymeric matrix may be expandable or contractible upon treatment with an enzyme.
However, there exist contractible spaces which do not strongly deformation retract to a point.
The Whitehead manifold is an example of a contractible manifold that is not tame.
