İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. doğum esnasında rahim adalelerinin gerilmesi; bu şekilde kısaltılmış kelime, kasılma/kısaltma/kapma; büzülme, çekilme, kısalma; bir veya birkaç harfin atılması ile yapllan kısaltma.

1. strong and usually painful movements of the muscles in the womb that help to push the baby out of the mother's body during the process of birth.
2. 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 tendon; the contraction produced by cold.
3. The process of shortening an operation.
4. 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.
5. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
6. 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.
7. A marriage contract. the act of decreasing in size or volume or quantity or scope a shortening or tensing of a part or organ a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'".