shōu liǎn

Traditional: 收斂

收敛 (shōu liǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc); to astringe”.

Meanings

  1. 1to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish
  2. 2to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc)
  3. 3to astringe
  4. 4(math.) to converge
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 收敛

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