Shrinkage may refer to:

Reduction in size of a solid material

• Shrinkage (casting), size reduction of liquid metal as it solidifies

• Shrinkage (concrete), size reduction of concrete as it sets and ages

• Shrinkage (fabric), size reduction of fabric when washed with water or hot water

• Shrinkage (wood), size reduction of wood as it dries

Other uses

• Shrinkage (accounting), loss of product inventory due to theft, damage, spoilage, etc.

• Shrinkage defect or shrinkage void, a casting defect caused by metal solidifying from the outside inward

• Shrinkage (statistics), a technique to improve an estimator

• Shrinkage (slang)

See also

• Degrowth

• Downsizing (disambiguation)

• Human penis size

• Miniaturization

• Resizing (fiction)

• Shrink (disambiguation)

• Swelling (disambiguation) (opposite of shrinkage)