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contraction or
contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contraction may
refer to:
Contraction (grammar), a
shortened word
Poetic contraction, omission...
- ****l
contractions are
contractions of the
pelvic muscles surrounding the ****,
especially the
pubococcygeus muscle. ****l
contractions are generally...
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Muscle contraction is the
activation of tension-generating
sites within muscle cells. In physiology,
muscle contraction does not
necessarily mean muscle...
- In
cardiac physiology,
isometric contraction is an
event occurring in
early systole during which the
ventricles contract with no
corresponding volume...
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Poetic contractions are
contractions of
words found in
poetry but not
commonly used in
everyday modern English. Also
known as
elision or syncope, these...
- In mathematics, a
contraction mapping, or
contraction or contractor, on a
metric space (M, d) is a
function f from M to itself, with the
property that...
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Segmentation contractions (or movements) are a type of
intestinal motility.
Unlike peristalsis,
which predominates in the esophagus,
segmentation contractions occur...
- The
Great Contraction, as
characterized by
economist Milton Friedman, was the
recessionary period from 1929
until 1933, i.e., the
early years of the Great...
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Uterine contractions are
muscle contractions of the
uterine smooth muscle that can
occur at
various intensities in both the non-pregnant and
pregnant uterine...
- In
computer science, the
method of
contraction hierarchies is a speed-up
technique for
finding the shortest-path in a graph. The most
intuitive applications...