An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONTRACTIBLE
Etymology
Adjective
contractible (comparative more contractible, superlative most contractible)
Capable of contraction
(mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
Antonyms
• incontractible
• noncontractible
• uncontractible
Source: Wiktionary
Con*tract"i*ble, a.
Definition: Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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