contractant
nounUK /kənˈtɹækt.ənt/ · US /kənˈtɹækt.ənt/
Etymology Borrowed from French contractant (“contracting”), the present participle of contracter (“to contract”). First attested in 1721. By surface analysis, contract + -ant.
- That trading vessels of any of the contractant, under convoy, shall lodge with the commander of the convoying vessel their passports and certificates or sea-letters, drawn up according to a certain form.1860, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, Introduction to the Study of International Law, third (revised and enlarged) edition, quoted in Century 1911, New York City, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., published 1872, § 191, page 327:
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Mathematics, Sciences Rare Synonym of condensation.