In a contractible manner; in a way that is capable of being contracted or reduced.
From 'contractible' (able to contract) + '-ly' (in the manner of). This adverb is primarily used in technical and mathematical contexts.
In math, spaces can be contractibly deformed—meaning they can be continuously squashed down to nothing, a concept that blew mathematicians' minds in the 20th century!
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