Crossword clues for tightness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tightness \Tight"ness\, n. The quality or condition of being tight.
Wiktionary
n. The quality or degree of being tight
WordNet
n. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency]
extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness]
lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tautness] [ant: looseness]
Wikipedia
Tightness may refer to:
In mathematics,
- Tightness of (a collection of) measures is a concept in measure (and probability), theory in mathematics
- Tightness (topology) is also a cardinal function used in general topology
In economics,
- Tightness refers to the degree to which the number of unemployed workers exceed the number of posted job vacancies (or vice versa).
- Market tightness, a point in time where it is very difficult to invest, but it is far easier to sell or to remove investments in return of monetary rewards
In other fields,
- Tightness of a rope indicates the rope is under tension
- Tightness of a sealing means it is impermeable, that it seals well
- Tightness is the art of being 'tight' (i.e., stingy or miserly)
- Tightness can refer to something being cool
Usage examples of "tightness".
A quick twist of her fingers clasped the highest agraffe on her pourpoint, closing the vest to an uncomfortable tightness.
They amounted in value to sixty thousand francs, but she could not dispose of them on the Paris Exchange owing to the tightness in the money market.
Nylan said, one hand massaging the back of his neck, hoping that easing the tightness would help his headache.
Again he draws out, and again enters, till the friction caused by the luscious tightness of the rich flesh which clasps tightly his foaming pego causes such delicious sensations that he is no longer master of himself.
Education as socialization influences students simply to accept the tightness of our society.
Another shudder coursed through her, and she tightened her hold on his hands, her breath catching as she flexed her hips, her hot, wet tightness gripping him, stroking him, drawing him closer and closer.
A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose.
His jaw was hard, and there was a tightness in his expression that Shafter read as well as he read the low-hung, tied-down guns.
I buried my face against his shoulder, and that hot, hot tightness spilled out of my eyes, and my lips.
She was sure it was very unchristian, and unfeminine to hate anyone this way, and yet she felt it with a depth and Tightness she could not deny.
The tightness in his loins ached with the force of his unspilled seed.
And yet the man who studied him more closely might discern a certain firmness of jaw and grim tightness about the lips which would warn him that there were depths beyond, and that this pleasant, brown-haired young Irishman might conceivably leave his mark for good or evil upon any society to which he was introduced.
On another night, I would have asked for more foreplay to make that horrible tightness loose, but tonight I wanted to feel him push his way in.
Nen Yim felt a tightness in her throat that had nothing to do with the hard-shelled variety of gnullith she had inserted there to pass the air from the lungworm coiled on her back.
He hoisted his buttocks onto the bottom step of the landing and removed his mask, blinking his eyes to adjust to the eerie strangeness of the light The tightness of the wetsuit began to irritate his arm.