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contracting

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of contract

  2. Getting smaller

    Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.

  3. The act of something that contracts or shrinks

    The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.

    • the contractings of his muscles
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Work done on a contract basis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contracting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contracting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at contracting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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