What is the meaning of take-up?

noun

  • Any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom. )
    • usage: "a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool"
  • The action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in. .
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