contractible

adj

Etymology

From contract + -ible.

  1. derived from contractus
  2. derived from contract
  3. suffixed as contractible — “contract + ible

Definitions

  1. Capable of contraction

  2. (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation

The neighborhood

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