kontraktio — meaning in English
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English meaning
- contraction noun A shortened form of a word or words, often marked with an apostrophe.
Senses
kontraktio is used for these senses in English:
- contraction (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- contraction (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- contraction (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.
contraction — full definition
- noun A shortened form of a word or words, often marked with an apostrophe.
- noun A strong tightening of the uterine muscles that occurs before and during childbirth.
- noun A shrinking or reduction in size, scope, or economic activity.