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shrink rate

shrink rate noun: the percentage or fraction of an original size, weight, or mass that is lost when an object or material shrinks.

Noun

shrink rate (plural shrink rates)

  1. The percentage or fraction of an original size, weight, or mass that is lost when an object or material shrinks.
    • Patternmakers, moldmakers, diemakers, and toolmakers must understand the shrink rates of the materials involved in the casting, molding, and stamping processes.
  2. The percentage or fraction of an original inventory that is left after reductions from theft, spoilage, evaporation, mislaying, and so on.
    • Retail analysts must understand the shrink rates of the businesses whose performance they forecast.

Forms of shrink rate

pluralshrink rates

Questions about shrink rate

What does shrink rate mean?
Shrink rate means the percentage or fraction of an original size, weight, or mass that is lost when an object or material shrinks.
What part of speech is shrink rate?
Shrink rate is a noun.
What is the plural of shrink rate?
The plural of shrink rate is shrink rates.

Words near shrink rate in the dictionary

  1. shrink
  2. shrink away
  3. shrink back
  4. shrink band
  5. shrink down
  6. shrink rate
  7. shrink rates
  8. shrink ray
  9. shrink rays
  10. shrink up
  11. shrink-swell

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