contractive

Adjective

Meaning

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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addition growth increase rise gain expansion

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Let q ∈ (0, 1), then there exists a complete metric on X such that f is contractive, and q is the contraction constant. Source: Internet

More generally, the idea of a contractive mapping can be defined for maps between metric spaces. Source: Internet

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