shrinkage
nounEtymology
From shrink + -age.
- inherited from *skrinkwaną✻
- inherited from sċrincan
- inherited from schrynken
Definitions
The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
- How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.
The neighborhood
- neighborshrink rate
- neighborshrink-wrap
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shrinkage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA