Contraction

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:

contraction vs. extraction

contraction vs. retraction

contaction vs. contraction

contraction vs. contraption

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