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contraction

noun
🔊/kənˈtrækʃn/
🔊/kənˈtrækʃn/
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  1. [uncountable] the process of becoming smaller收缩；缩小
    • The design needs to allow for the expansion and contraction of the metal.设计需要考虑到金属的膨胀和收缩。
    • The sudden contraction of the markets left them with a lot of unwanted stock.股票市场骤然收缩，让他们剩下了许多无人要的股票。🔊🔊
    • Physical stress caused by expansion and contraction can damage components within the computer.由膨胀和收缩引起的物理压力可能会损坏计算机中的组件。
    • the contraction of the pipes in cold weather寒冷天气下管道的收缩
    opposite expansion
  2. [countable, uncountable] a sudden and painful contracting of muscles, especially the muscles around a woman’s womb, that happens when she is giving birth to a child（肌肉的）收缩，挛缩；（尤指分娩时的）子宫收缩
    • The contractions started coming every five minutes.子宫开始每隔五分钟收缩一次。🔊🔊
    • Neurons control the contraction of muscles.神经细胞控制肌肉收缩
    • The contractions were coming every ten minutes.每十分钟就会出现一次宫缩。
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    Topics Life stagesc2
  3. [countable] (linguistics语言学) a short form of a word词的缩约形式
    • ‘He's’ may be a contraction of ‘he is’ or ‘he has’.he's 可以是 he is 或 he has 的缩写形式。🔊🔊
    Topics Languageb1
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin contractio(n-), from contrahere ‘draw together’, from con- ‘together’ + trahere ‘draw’.