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contraction noun

  /kɒn-/ , /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/ , /kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
  • A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
 Kontraktion, Zusammenziehung, Abnahme, Abnehmen, Minderung, Schrumpfen
  • (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
 Kontraktion, Zusammenziehung, Anspannung, Einschnürung, Geburtswehe, Kontraktur
  • (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 Kontraktion, Zusammenziehung
  • (linguistics) 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.
 Zusammenziehung
  • (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
 Abschwung, Rezession, Rückgang, Schrumpfung
  • An act of incurring debt; also (generally) , an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
 Annahme, Erwerb, Infektion, Kontamination
  • (archaic) An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete) , a betrothal.
  • (linguistics, phonology, prosody) 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”)
 Ansteckung, Erwerb, Infektion
  • (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 Kontraktur, Schrumpfung

contract noun

  /ˈkɑntɹækt/ , /ˈkɒntɹækt/
  • (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
 Vertrag, Kontrakt, Übereinkunft, Übereinkommen
  • An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
 Kontrakt, Vertrag

contract verb

  /kənˈtɹækt/
  • (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
 abschließen, einen Vertrag abschließen, einen Vertrag schließen, kontrahieren, schließen, sich vertraglich verpflichten
  • (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
 annehmen, erkranken an, sich etwas zuziehen, sich infizieren
  • (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
 einengen, einschrumpfen, kontrahieren, schrumpfen, verkürzen, zusammenziehen
Lorentz contraction
Längenkontraktion
length contraction
Längenkontraktion
Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
Lorentzkontraktion, Längenkontraktion, Längenverkürzung
uterine contraction
Geburtswehe
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