Contracts and Expand

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Expand is an antonym for contracts in topics: condense, come to terms, catch disease.

Expand verb - To express more fully and in greater detail.

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Contracts is an antonym for expand.

The metal on the heatsinks used to keep those modern CPUs from melting expand and contracts very quickly as the thermal power fluctuates, which turns into faint vibration, i.e. sounds.

Source: Beeping Computers

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