Meaning of contraction in English
(Definition of contraction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
contraction | American Dictionary
A contraction is a shortening of a muscle intentionally, or a sudden, unexpected, and often painful shortening of a muscle:
grammar
[ C ] “Can’t” is a contraction of “cannot.”
contraction | Business English
Examples of contraction
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Experiments evaluating the effects of isoproteronol on tissue removed from the heart at surgery demonstrated initial inhibition of contraction with improvements over time.
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The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules of weakening, contraction or cut.
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This is consistent with the contraction of the regional system and a reduction in the production of export goods.
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Two sequences are equivalent if and only if they admit contractions which have a common dilation.
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This contraction occurs for the macromolecules themselves but is more dramatic in the case of the lattice contacts.
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Along the way, we gain detailed insights into the changes that proofs undergo during cut elimination in the presence of weakening and contraction.
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Getting this right can be quite tricky and not doing it may prevent cut or contraction elimination from succeeding correctly.
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This is 2:1 second degree atrioventricular block - every other atrial contraction is followed by a ventricular contraction (v).
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In this study, the grammatical measure included omissions of articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, and contractions, and incorrect usage of word order and negatives.
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Shading indicates the degree of pressure exerted on the vessels by contraction.
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Instead of summing up expansions and contractions in extraordinary fiscal periods, we allow the effects of fiscal policy to vary between expansions and contraction.
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That is, based on the test results, it is inappropriate to group expansions and contraction into a common regime definition such as extraordinary periods.
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Initially water was pumped into the reservoir upstream of the contraction and allowed to flow through the contraction.
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In particular, the total net flow from the active to the passive vertices is the same before and after the contraction.
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Then we derive the typing rules of the catch and throw operators: they correspond respectively to right contraction and weakening rules of classical natural deduction.
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(hamile) kasların kasılması, kısaltma, kısaltılmış sözcükler…
contraction [feminine], forme [feminine] contractée, réduction [feminine]…
短縮（たんしゅく）, 筋肉（きんにく）の収縮（しゅうしゅく）, 収縮（しゅうしゅく）…
samentrekking…
stahování, smršťování, zkrácený tvar/slovo…
sammentrækning…
pengerutan, singkatan…
การหดตัว, คำย่อ…
sự co lại, dạng rút gọn…
skurcz, skrót, forma ściągnięta…
sammandragning, krympning, förkortning…
pengecutan, singkatan…
das Zusammenziehen, die Abkürzung…
kortform [masculine], ve [masculine], sammentrekning [masculine]…
стискання, скорочення, стягнення…
родовая схватка, сокращенная форма, уменьшение…
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