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Shrinkage (casting), size reduction of liquid metal as it solidifies; Shrinkage (concrete), size reduction of concrete as it sets and ages; Shrinkage (fabric), size reduction of fabric when washed with water or hot water; Shrinkage (wood), size reduction of wood as it dries
An early complication in measuring the efficacy of class size reduction was the tendency for different ideological camps to use different definitions of class size in the literature. As a direct measure of the number of students in each class, group size is currently understood by the educational community to be the best measure of a teacher's ...
Orthopedic surgery attempts to recreate the normal anatomy of the fractured bone by reduction of the displacement. [citation needed] This sense of the term "reduction" does not imply any sort of removal or quantitative decrease but rather implies a restoration: re ("back [to initial position]") + ducere ("lead"/"bring"), i.e., "bringing back to ...
Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a measurement of the relative reduction in size of data representation produced by a data compression algorithm. It is typically expressed as the division of uncompressed size by compressed size.
Shrinkflation is a rise in the general price level of goods per unit of weight or volume, brought about by a reduction in the weight or size of the item sold. [ citation needed ] The price for one piece of the packaged product remains the same.
The author Kurt Vonnegut was a passionate advocate for class size reduction: "… we have some of the worst schools in the world…. The classes are too big. My definition of a utopia is very simple: classes of 15 or smaller – out of this, a great nation can be built. Classes have 35 students, for Christ's sake. The class ideally should be a ...
Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes. [1] [2] In geology, it occurs naturally during faulting in the upper part of the Earth's crust. [3]
Reduction (cooking), the process of thickening or intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture such as a soup, sauce, wine, or juice by evaporation; Reduction (military), the siege and capture of a fortified place; Reduction (Sweden), a return to the Crown of fiefs that had been granted to the Swedish nobility