contraction

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).

   “Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.”

2. isim An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.
3. isim The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.

   “the contraction of malaria”

4. isim An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
5. isim A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
6. isim A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

   “Though occasionally a “flatliner” can be revived with a defib, it is most commonly used to change the uncoordinated contractions of the heart (fibrillation) into a normal sinus rhythm—that is, to defibrillate the heart.”

7. isim A period of economic decline or negative growth.

   “The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.”

8. isim A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

   “In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.”

9. isim In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.

   “Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.”

10. isim Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
11. isim The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
12. isim A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
13. isim An act of collecting or gathering.