Tending to contract or cause contraction. The contractive properties of the material make it ideal for use in cold environments.
Relating to or designating a shortened form of a word or phrase produced by contraction. In informal writing, "don't" is a contractive form of "do not."
(Mathematics) Characterized by reducing the distance between any two points; shrinking; having a Lipschitz constant less than one. The function f(x) = x/2 is contractive on the set of real numbers.