contraction

1. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.

   (злічуване, незлічуване)An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).

   Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

   Annahme, Erwerb, Infektion

2. (злічуване, незлічуване)The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.

   the contraction of malaria

   Ansteckung, Erwerb, Infektion

   the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

3. A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.

   (злічуване, незлічуване)A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

   Kontraktur, Schrumpfung

4. (злічуване, незлічуване)A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

   Kontraktion, Kontraktur, Anspannung

   сокраще́ниеsokraščénije, сжа́тиеsžátije, сокраще́ниеsokraščénije

5. (злічуване, незлічуване)A period of economic decline or negative growth.

   The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.

   Abschwung, Rezession, Rückgang

6. (злічуване, незлічуване)A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

   In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.

   Zusammenziehung

7. (злічуване, незлічуване)In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.

   Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.

   Kontraktion, Zusammenziehung

   сокраще́ниеsokraščénije, стяже́ниеstjažénije

   скороченняskoročennja

8. (злічуване, незлічуване)Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).

9. (злічуване, незлічуване)The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.

10. (ширше, злічуване, незлічуване)A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.

11. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.

    (архаїчне, злічуване, незлічуване)An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.

12. A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.

    (архаїчне, злічуване, застаріле, незлічуване)An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.

1. How far apart are the contractions?

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2. What are contractions?

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3. Rima's contractions are increasing in intensity.

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4. My contractions last about forty-five seconds.

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5. Hiccups are involuntary contraction of the diaphragm.

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