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Tightness

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Tightness may refer to:

In mathematics,

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

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