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contraction    音标拼音: [kəntr'ækʃən]
n. 收缩,缩写式,害病

收缩,缩写式,害病

contraction
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contraction
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contraction
n 1: (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ
(especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) [synonym:
{contraction}, {muscular contraction}, {muscle
contraction}]
2: the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed
together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" [synonym:
{compression}, {condensation}, {contraction}]
3: 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'"
4: the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or
quantity or scope [ant: {enlargement}, {expansion}]

Contraction \Con*trac"tion\, n. [L. contractio: cf. F.
contraction.]
1. The act or process of contracting, shortening, or
shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction
of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendon; the
contraction produced by cold.
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2. (Math.) The process of shortening an operation.
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3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as
liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of
becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
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4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase;
-- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for
criminal conversation, etc.
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5. (Gram.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the
omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or
more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never;
can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
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6. A marriage contract. [Obs.] --Shak.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "contraction":
Speedwriting, abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, alleviation,
apocope, aposiopesis, attenuation, brachygraphy, clipping,
coarctation, constriction, crasis, cutting, dampening, damping,
decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation,
depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, dying,
dying off, elision, ellipsis, extenuation, fade-out, languishment,
lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, narrowing,
phonography, pruning, reduction, relaxation, sagging, scaling down,
shortening, shorthand, simplicity, stenography, stricture,
subtraction, syncope, syneresis, tachygraphy, taper, tapering,
truncation, weakening



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