contraction

Etymology
From Late, , from (modern 🇨🇬), from , the   of , from  + ;  is derived from  +  (probably from ). The English word is analysable as.

Noun

 * 1)  An act of incurring debt; also, an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
 * 2)  An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also, a betrothal.
 * 3)  The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
 * 4)  A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
 * 5)  An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also, brevity, conciseness.
 * 6)  A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 * 7)  A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
 * 8)  A period of economic decline or negative growth.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10)  The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
 * 11)  In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 * 12)  A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
 * 13)  An act of collecting or gathering.
 * 1)  A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 * 2)  A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
 * 3)  A period of economic decline or negative growth.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
 * 6)  In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 * 7)  A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
 * 8)  An act of collecting or gathering.
 * 1)  The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
 * 2)  In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 * 3)  A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
 * 4)  An act of collecting or gathering.
 * 1)  An act of collecting or gathering.

Translations

 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Macedonian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , megfertőződés
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Macedonian: за́раза, заразу́вање
 * Portuguese:


 * Afrikaans: verkleining
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ချုံ့ခြင်း, ကျုံ့ခြင်း
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: supistuminen
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , Abnehmen, , Schrumpfen, Schrumpfung, Schwinden, , , , , , Stauchung
 * Hebrew: התכווצות
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: contractiō
 * Macedonian: скрату́вање
 * Norwegian: kontraksjon, forminskning
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: daginsin
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: การหดตัว
 * Uzbek:


 * Burmese: ချုံ့ခြင်း, ကျုံ့ခြင်း
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, Schrumpfung
 * Macedonian:
 * Uzbek:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: lihassupistus,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , , Einschnürung, , , , Zusammenziehen, Zuziehung
 * Hebrew: התכווצות
 * Hungarian:, izom-összehúzódás,
 * Japanese: 攣縮
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maori: kukutinga
 * Norwegian: kontraksjon, sammentrekning
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, sammandragning
 * Welsh: cyfangiad


 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: контракция
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, synnytyssupistus
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, méhösszehúzódás, szülési fájás
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: контра́кција
 * Maori: kukutinga
 * Norwegian: sammentrekning
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: контра̀кција, тру́дови
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sammandragning


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , , Schrumpfung
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Occitan:


 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, supistuminen
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, összevonódás,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 約音化
 * Macedonian:
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: cywasgiad


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, supistumamuoto
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: összevont alak
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 短縮形
 * Korean: 단축어
 * Macedonian: скрату́вање
 * Norwegian: sammentrekning
 * Polish: kontrakcja, forma ściąnięta
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sammandragning
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: cywasgiad


 * Finnish: lyhennemerkki
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:

Etymology
From, , the  of , from  + ;  is derived from  +  (probably from ).