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contraction: the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope; (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber); 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'"

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elision collapse: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

ellipsis collapse: omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

miniaturization collapse: act of making on a greatly reduced scale

puckering collapse

hourglass collapse: a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

tapering collapse: the act of gradually lowering the size or amount; "the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose"; gradually narrowed toward a point; "a tall tapering spire"

isthmus collapse: a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure; a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas

systole collapse: the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

clipping collapse: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"

decrement collapse

shorthand collapse: a method of writing rapidly; written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"

compression collapse: applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

alleviation collapse

constriction collapse: the action or process of compressing; a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"; tight or narrow compression; a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

narrowing collapse: the act of making something narrower; an instance of becoming narrow; a decrease in width

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

abridgment collapse

knitting collapse: creating knitted wear

subtraction collapse: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"; an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

weakening collapse: the act of reducing the strength of something; becoming weaker; moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

epitome collapse: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

deflation collapse: the act of letting the air out of something; a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices; (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"

diminution collapse: the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

astringency collapse: the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids; a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker

lessening collapse

abatement collapse: the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement"

sagging collapse

relaxation collapse: a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount; an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"; (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance; (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

bottleneck collapse: the narrow part of a bottle near the top; become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"; slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

curtailment collapse: the temporal property of being cut short

taper collapse: the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone); a convex shape that narrows toward a point; diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

condensation collapse: (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams; a shortened version of a written work; atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold; the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

strangulation collapse: (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"; the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage

fade out collapse

stricture collapse: severe criticism

letup collapse: a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise"

consolidation collapse: the act of combining into an integral whole; "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them"; combining into a solid mass; something that has consolidated into a compact mass; "he dropped the consolidation into the acid bath"

solidification collapse

mitigation collapse

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