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contraction

/kuhn-trak-shuhn/US // kənˈtræk ʃən //UK // (kənˈtrækʃən) //

收缩,缩减,缩水,缩紧

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of contracting.
    • : the quality or state of being contracted.
    • : a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe, as e'er for ever, isn't for is not, dep't for department.
    • : Physiology. the change in a muscle by which it becomes thickened and shortened.
    • : a restriction or withdrawal, as of currency or of funds available as call money.
    • : a decrease in economic and industrial activity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundrawing in; shortening
Forms: contractions
Synonyms
decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌deflation通货紧缩,通缩,通货收缩,通货缩减recession衰退期,衰退,不景气,经济衰退reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低shrinkage缩水,缩减,缩水率,萎缩abbreviation缩略语,缩略词,缩略,简称abridgment节略,删节,节选,节略语compression压缩,压缩器,压缩率,压缩空气condensation凝结,冷凝,凝结物,凝结水condensing冷凝,冷凝式,冷凝式的confinement囚禁,拘禁,监禁,拘束constriction压迫,收缩,压迫感,缩减curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水diminution缩减,缩水,减弱,减少dwindling逐渐减少,逐渐减少的,越来越少,越来越少的elision辩解,辩才,辩称,延伸evaporation挥发,蒸发,气化,蒸发作用lessening减轻,减弱,减缓,减少narrowing狭窄化,缩小,狭窄的,缩窄omission遗漏,疏漏,不作为,疏忽receding减退,减退的,退行,退缩reducing减少,降低,削减,减少了shrinking缩减,缩水,萎缩,收缩tightening收紧,紧缩,收缩,紧固withdrawal撤回,退出,撤出,撤销abbreviating缩略语,缩略词,缩略,缩略号abridging删节,删减,缩减,缩略语confining拘束的,拘束,拘束性的,拘拘束束curtailing缩减,削减,缩减的,缩减开支cutting down削减,砍伐,伐木,砍掉decreasing减少,逐渐减少,递减,越来越少deflating放气,放气的,放气机,放气式diminishing逐渐减少,递减,越来越少,逐渐减少的drawing together齐心协力,齐心合力,共同绘制omitting省略,遗漏,省略了,省略的tensing绷紧,紧张,紧绷,紧张的withdrawing撤回,退出,提取,撤出

Examples

  • The economy’s deep contraction was heavily driven by services.

  • When it comes to visualizing expansion and contraction, people often focus on a balloonlike universe whose change in size is described by a “scale factor.”

  • In the cyclic universe, however, the smoothing happens during a period of contraction.

  • The varying rates of contraction will be most extreme in countries like Thailand, Japan and Spain along with 20 others, where declines could see their populations halved by 2100, a new Lancet report on fertility and population growth scenarios shows.

  • The expected population contraction will be due to dropping fertility rates with death rates being either at par with or faster than birth rates in several countries.

  • Side effects may include recession, job contraction, 401(k) bruising, recurrent Dow fluctuation, and IRA bleeding.

  • “AOL had a history of turmoil—rapid expansion and then rapid contraction,” Bewkes says.

  • That would place the country in recession, typically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction...

  • The resulting credit contraction would be terrible news for the Italian economy.

  • Darwin considered that this protective contraction “was a fundamental element in several of our most important expressions.”

  • In fact, incredibly faster, after his once-a-century contraction of short years before.

  • I take iowell (with a bar through the ll) to be the usual (Northern) contraction for Iowellis, jewels; F. text, joiau, pl.

  • The nick-name of Gigonnet was applied to Bidault on account of a feverish, involuntary contraction of a leg muscle.

  • Expansion and contraction broke the high arch and the connexions between the arches.

  • Her lowered eyelids had that vague contraction which suggests a tear checked in its course, or a thought suppressed.