English-Spanish translations for contraction

• contracción
  Primera ¿cuál es su opinión sobre la contracción y la convergencia como marco para una acción futura? First, what is its view on contraction and convergence as a framework for future action?
  El resultado ha sido un crecimiento del PIB de un escaso 0,7 % en 2008, seguido de una contracción del 4 % en 2009. The result has been GDP growth of a meagre 0.7% in 2008, followed by a 4% contraction in 2009.
  Volviendo a cuestiones más serias, la contracción económica en los países de Europa Central ha alcanzado proporciones drásticas. Returning to more serious matters, the economic contraction in the countries of Central Europe has reached drastic proportions.

Definition of contraction

• A reversible reduction in size
• A shortening of a muscle when it is used
• A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word
• A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process
• A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity
• Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word
• A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together

Examples

• The countrys economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
• In English didnt, thats, and wanna, the endings -nt, -s, and -a arose by contraction.
• "Dont" is a contraction of "do not."
• the contraction of malaria
• Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

Related words

• length contraction
• Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
• uterine contraction
• Lorentz contraction
• muscle contraction
• abdominal contraction