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contractional

adj

Etymology

From contraction + -al.

  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
  5. suffixed as contractional — “contraction + al”

Definitions

  1. of or related to contraction

    • Bars show principal horizontal stresses; black bars correspond to contractional stress and white bars to extensional stress.

The neighborhood

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