CONTRACTION
\kəntɹˈakʃən], \kəntɹˈakʃən], \k_ə_n_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONTRACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
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the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
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The process of shortening an operation.
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The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
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Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
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The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
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A marriage contract.
By Oddity Software
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The act of drawing together; shrinkage; act of acquiring; the shortening of a word, or two words, by the cutting out of a letter or letters, as can't for cannot.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Contractio.Same etymon; Systole. Action of contracting. When we speak or the contraction of a muscle, we mean the phenomenon it exhibits during the time it is in action.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of contracting.
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The state of being contracted.
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In physiology, the sum of the phenomena which accompany a single muscular movement.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of contracting or state of being contracted; —process of shortening any operation; —abbreviation; —the shortening of a word by the omission of a vowel or syllable.
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The act of contracting or shortening; the act of shrinking or shrivelling; the state of being contracted, drawn into a narrow compass; in grammar, the reduction of two vowels or syllables to one ; abbreviation, as the writing is full of contractions.
By Thomas Sheridan
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