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contraction

noun
/kənˈtɹækʃn̩/UK/kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/US/kəɳˈʈrakʃən/

Etymology

PIE word *ḱóm From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiō(n) (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō(n) (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). By surface analysis, contract + -ion (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results).

  1. derived from *dʰregʰ-✻ — “to drag, pull; to run”
  2. derived from contractiō — “a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”
  3. derived from contraction
  4. inherited from contraccioun

Definitions

  1. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a…

    Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.

    • Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

  2. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.

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Derived

aftercontraction, anticontraction, Braxton Hicks contraction, cocontraction, concentric contraction, contractional, contractionary, contractionism, contractionist, contractionless, decontraction, eccentric contraction, edge contraction, haustral contraction, hypercontraction, intercontraction, isometric contraction, isotonic contraction, lanthanide contraction, length contraction, Lorentz contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, mutated contraction, noncontraction, overcontraction, precontraction, recontraction, supercontraction, vasocontraction, wanna contraction

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contraction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contraction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at contraction

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA