Shrinkage

Shrinkage may refer to:

Reduction in size of a solid material

• 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

Other uses

• Shrinkage (accounting), loss of product inventory due to theft, damage, spoilage, etc.
• Shrinkage defect or shrinkage void, a casting defect caused by metal solidifying from the outside inward
• Shrinkage (statistics), a technique to improve an estimator
• Shrinkage (slang)

See also

• Degrowth
• Downsizing (disambiguation)
• Human penis size
• Miniaturization
• Resizing (fiction)
• Shrink (disambiguation)
• Swelling (disambiguation) (opposite of shrinkage)

1. Shrinkage (accounting)
2. Shrinkage (statistics)
3. Metal casting
4. Breast atrophy
5. Casting defect
6. Dimensional stability (fabric)
7. Atterberg limits
8. Municipal disinvestment
9. Urban shrinkage
10. Creep and shrinkage of concrete
11. London shrunk
12. Stoping
13. Human penis size
14. Human jaw shrinkage
15. Arctic sea ice decline
16. Lasso (statistics)
17. Penis
18. Properties of concrete
19. Teardrop (electronics)
20. Apoptosis