contraction
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
contraction
- A reversible reduction in size.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
- (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
- (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.
- (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- (medicine) The process of contracting a disease.
- the contraction of malaria
- (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
- (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- French: contraction
- German: Verkleinerung, Kontraktion, Schrumpfung, Schrumpfen, Abnehmen, Abnahme, Minderung, Verkürzung, Zusammenziehung, Verengung, Schwinden, Schwindung
- Italian: contrazione
- Portuguese: contração
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: contracción
- French: contraction
- German: Rezession, Rückgang, Abschwung, Schrumpfung
- German: Kontraktion, Zusammenziehen, Verkürzung, Zusammenziehung, Anspannung, Einschnürung, Verengung, Zuziehung, Kontraktur
- Portuguese: contração, crispação
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: contracción
- German: Wehe, Geburtswehe
- Portuguese: contração
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: contracción
- German: Schmelzwort, Verschmelzung, Abkürzung, Verkürzung, Kurzwort
- Italian: accorciamento
- Spanish: contracción
- German: Kontraktion
- Portuguese: contração
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: contracción
- German: Infektion, Erwerb, Ansteckung
- Portuguese: contração
- German: Infektion, Erwerb, Annahme, Kontamination
- German: Kontraktur, Schrumpfung
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