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TIGHT-FITTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tight-fitting mean?
• TIGHT-FITTING (adjective)
The adjective TIGHT-FITTING has 1 sense:
1. fitting snugly
Familiarity information: TIGHT-FITTING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: tightest-fitting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fitting snugly
Synonyms:
skinny; tight-fitting; tight fitting; tightfitting; tightly fitting
Context example:
tight-fitting clothes
Similar:
tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)
Context examples
A tight-fitting, elastic garment, such as a sleeve or stocking.
(Compression garment, NCI Dictionary)
Later, a compression garment (tight-fitting, elastic piece of clothing) is worn to keep fluid from building up again.
(Complex decongestive therapy, NCI Dictionary)
The team thus hypothesized that the tight-fitting nucleus might be pulled forward like a piston by actomyosin contractions to pressurize the front of the cell and form lobopodia.
(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)
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