contraction

Senso

1. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
2. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
3. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
4. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
5. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
6. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
7. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
8. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
9. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
10. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
11. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
12. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
13. (obsolete) Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.

Con trattino come

con‧tract‧ion

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kənˈtɹækʃn̩/

Etimologia

PIE word
*ḱóm
From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiōnem, the accusative singular of contractiō (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). The English word is analysable as contract + -ion (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results).

Frasi

Elongation in hydrostats is caused by the contraction of transverse or helical musculature arrangements .

L'allungamento negli idrostati è causato dalla contrazione delle disposizioni muscolature trasversali o elicoidali.