tightness

1 a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency]

2 extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness]

3 lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tautness] [ant: looseness]

English

Etymology

Noun

1. the quality of being tight

• Tightness of (a collection of) measures is a concept in measure (and probability) theory in mathematics
• Tightness of a rope indicates the rope is under tension
• Tightness of a sealing means it is not permeable, that it seals well
• Tightness is the art of being 'tight' - ie stingy or miserly
• Tightness is also a cardinal function used in general topology.

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