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contraction

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 contracción contraction

Similar words

muscular contraction muscle contraction compression condensation speedwriting abatement abbreviation abridgment alleviation apocope aposiopesis attenuation brachygraphy clipping coarctation constriction crasis cutting dampening damping decrease decrement decrescence deduction