contraction bulgariaksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-bulgaria)

A reversible reduction in size.
(economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
(biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
(medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
(linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
(medicine) Contracting a disease.
(phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
(medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.
"Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
The contraction of AIDS from toilet seats is extremely rare.
Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

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