Bible Dictionaries
Contractility

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

(2):

(n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contractility'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/contractility.html. 1828.