EXPANDERS Antonyms

• any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils

• someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

• the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

• (law) a party to a contract

• a bodily organ that contracts

• (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)

• a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver

• pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter