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Meaning of contraction
- 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 tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
- The process of shortening an operation.
- 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.
- Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
- 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.
- A marriage contract.
Crossword clue for contraction
- Awful feeling birth may be happening during downturn
- Birth spasm
- Labour spasm
- Shortened word
- Sign of labour shrinkage
- Spasm
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