Definition:
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The process of shortening an operation.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A marriage contract.
Compare contraction with other words:
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contaction vs. contraction
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collapse vs. contraction
contractility vs. contraction
contraction vs. myodynamics
contraction vs. larypgismus
contraction vs. hydrostat
contraction vs. icequake
contraction vs. laxator
contraction vs. metachrosis
contraction vs. hemisystole
contraction vs. labialization
contraction vs. ergotine
contraction vs. crenation
contraction vs. hoofbound
contraction vs. coronis
contraction vs. depolarize
compound vs. contraction
contraction vs. mobile
content vs. contraction
contraction vs. extension
contraction vs. traction
contraction vs. shrinkage
constriction vs. contraction
contractible vs. contraction
contraction vs. contracture
astringency vs. contraction
contraction vs. crasis
contraction vs. spasmodic
contraction vs. isotonic
contracted vs. contraction
contraction vs. fullness
contraction vs. wryneck
contraction vs. peristalsis
contraction vs. synaeresis
apocopation vs. contraction
contraction vs. fibrillation
contraction vs. erosion
contraction vs. systole
contraction vs. oxytocic
contraction vs. cramp
contraction vs. isometric
contraction vs. restriction
contraction vs. spasm
contraction vs. intake
contraction vs. corrugation
contraction vs. convulsion
contraction vs. ile
contraction vs. omission
contraction vs. contractive
contract vs. contraction
contraction vs. dilatation
contraction vs. expansion
contraction vs. wound
acquisition vs. contraction
apostrophe vs. contraction
contraction vs. word
bound vs. contraction
contraction vs. free
contraction vs. uterine
contraction vs. muscle
contraction vs. negative
contraction vs. shorten
contraction vs. reduction
contraction vs. reversible
contraction vs. its
contraction vs. shrink
contraction vs. growth
abbreviate vs. contraction