Shrinkage

The shrinkage or shrinkage denotes:

• Generally disappearing or losing weight
• A material property: the reduction in volume through certain processes, see shrinkage
  • When drying wood, see shrinkage (wood)
  • When setting concrete; see shrinkage (concrete)
  • When solidifying cast parts, see shrinkage (metal casting)
• Reduction through wear and tear
  • Technically: a form of wear and tear
• Radio: field strength fluctuations when receiving; see fading (electrical engineering)
• Medicine: The regression of tissue ( see atrophy ), also emaciation as in "consumption" (for example due to tuberculosis )
• Colloquially, the disappearance of goods from warehouses or storage rooms that is not registered in the company, e.g. B. through unrecorded storage removals, damage or theft
• in gastronomy the loss of serving

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