contraction

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

   (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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.

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

   Kontraktur, Schrumpfung

4. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)A period of economic decline or negative growth.

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

   Abschwung, Rezession, Rückgang

6. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.

10. (broadly, countable, uncountable)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.

    (archaic, countable, uncountable)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.

    (archaic, countable, obsolete, uncountable)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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