Dwindling

Shrinkage is the name of the following people:

• Ted Schwinden (* 1925), American politician

Schwinden (from Middle High German swīnen “to lose weight, to shrink, to shrink, to lose weight”) also denotes

• generally the disappearance or a decrease, details under shrinkage
• the shrinkage as a material property :
  • the ratio between the volume of a metal casting at the solidification temperature and the volume at room temperature, see shrinkage (metal casting)
  • the shortening of the concrete over time due to the release of moisture and chemical reactions during strength development, see shrinkage (concrete)
  • the change in volume of a component made of wood, see shrinkage (wood)
• the symptoms of consumption (see tuberculosis )

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.