engelska-isländska översättning av contraction
Definition av contraction
- A reversible reduction in size
- A shortening of a muscle when it is used
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together
Exempel
- The countrys economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
- In English didnt, thats, and wanna, the endings -nt, -s, and -a arose by contraction.
- "Dont" is a contraction of "do not."
- the contraction of malaria
- Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
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