Shrinkage

Shrinkage may refer to:

Reduction in size of a solid material

• Shrinkage (casting), size reduction of liquid metal as it solidifies
• Shrinkage (concrete), size reduction of concrete as it sets and ages
• Shrinkage (fabric), size reduction of fabric when washed with water or hot water
• Shrinkage (wood), size reduction of wood as it dries

Other uses

• Shrinkage (accounting), loss of product inventory due to theft, damage, spoilage, etc.
• Shrinkage defect or shrinkage void, a casting defect caused by metal solidifying from the outside inward
• Shrinkage (statistics), a technique to improve an estimator
• Shrinkage (slang)

See also

• Degrowth
• Downsizing (disambiguation)
• Human penis size
• Miniaturization
• Resizing (fiction)
• Shrink (disambiguation)
• Swelling (disambiguation) (opposite of shrinkage)