Associations to the word «Contraction»
Noun
- Slowing
- Abdomen
- Hicks
- Convulsion
- Potential
- Hormone
- Impulse
- Convergence
- Initiate
- Stomach
- Ligament
- Vowel
- Potassium
- Bile
- Mapping
- Breathing
- Nipple
- Tremor
- Fitzgerald
- Vesicle
- Gut
- Peri
- Auxiliary
- Kinase
- Joint
- Swelling
- Cavity
- Penis
- Pumping
- Antagonist
- Membrane
- Receptor
- Hilbert
- Valve
- Decrease
- Vomiting
- Dysfunction
- Seizure
- Inflammation
- Pronoun
- Influx
- Platelet
- Graph
- Adhesion
- Rupture
- Abnormality
- Spindle
- Posture
- Tract
- Velocity
- Tissue
- Mu
- Deformity
- Gland
- Sperm
- Gdp
- Hemorrhage
- Pregnancy
Adjective
Wiktionary
CONTRACTION, noun. A reversible reduction in size.
CONTRACTION, noun. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
CONTRACTION, noun. (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
CONTRACTION, noun. (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
CONTRACTION, noun. (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
CONTRACTION, noun. (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
CONTRACTION, noun. (medicine) Contracting a disease.
CONTRACTION, noun. (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
CONTRACTION, noun. The acquisition of something, generally negative.
CONTRACTION, noun. (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
Dictionary definition
CONTRACTION, noun. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber).
CONTRACTION, noun. The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling".
CONTRACTION, noun. A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'".
CONTRACTION, noun. The act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope.
Wise words
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