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contraction
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French contraction, from Latin contracti?. Equivalent to contract +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/, /k?n?t?æk.??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/
- Rhymes: -æk??n
Noun
contraction (countable and uncountable, plural contractions)
- A reversible reduction in size.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
- (biology) A shortening of a muscle during its use.
- (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (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.
- In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.
- (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- (medicine) The process of contracting a disease.
- (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
- (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
Antonyms
- expansion
- dilatation
Derived terms
Related terms
- contract
- contractation
- contractive
- haustral contraction
Translations
See also
- omission
- Category:English contractions
- contraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contractio, contractionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.t?ak.sj??/
Noun
contraction f (plural contractions)
- contraction
Related terms
- contracter
- contrat
contraction From the web:
- what contractions feel like
- what contractions look like
- what contraction is made from will not
- what contractions compose a cardiac cycle
- what contractions look like on paper
- what contraction mean
- what contraction is made from we have
- what contraction words
fibrillation
English
Etymology
From New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra (“fiber”) in reference to the muscle strands of the heart.
Noun
fibrillation (countable and uncountable, plural fibrillations)
- The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.
Derived terms
- atrial fibrillation
- defibrillation
- ventricular fibrillation
Related terms
- fiber
- fibrillate
- defibrillate
- defibrillator
Translations
fibrillation From the web:
- what fibrillation means
- fibrillation what does it feel like
- what's atrial fibrillation
- what does fibrillation mean
- what is atrial fibrillation
- in what fibrillation instead of pumping strongly
- what's ventricular fibrillation
- what atrial fibrillation feels like
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