Contraction

Contraction (Latin contractio ) stands for

• Contraction (linguistics), contraction of two sounds into one sound
• Contraction (physics), physically induced shortening or shrinking
• Volume contraction, volume loss (chemistry and medicine)

Mathematics:

• Contraction (mathematics ), a Lipschitz continuous map with Lipschitz constant smaller than one
• Edge contraction, a fundamental operation on graphs in graph theory
• Tensorverjüngung, a mapping to reduce the level of a tensor or a tensor field

See also:

• Muscle contraction

• Disambiguation