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contraction
English
- 🔊 the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- 🔊 (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
- 🔊 a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds“`won't' is a contraction of `will not'”
- 🔊 the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together“the contraction of a gas on cooling”
Spanish
- 🔊 contracción contraction