Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 15 compound words that contain contraction. The most common are listed below. Open contraction in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- Lorentz-Fitzgerald contractionThe decrease in length of a moving object in the direction of motion, measurable only at relativistic speeds.
- edge contractionAn operation performed on an edge in a graph which deletes the edge, replaces its endpoints with a single new vertex, and replaces edges incident to either endpoint with an edge incident to the new vertex.
- length contractionLorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
- eccentric contractionThe tensioning of a muscle as it is being lengthened.
- concentric contractionWhen a muscle shortens while generating force, overcoming resistance to create movement, like the upward motion in a bicep curl or pushing up in a push-up.
- Lorentz contractionSynonym of Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction: The decrease in length of a moving object in the direction of motion, measurable only at relativistic speeds.
- isometric contractionWhen a muscle tenses and produces force but does not change length or cause joint movement (e.g., when holding a heavy box or doing a plank).
- Braxton Hicks contractionA sporadic uterine contraction during pregnancy; false labour.
- isotonic contractionWhen a muscle generates force and changes length, with constant tension, as it moves a load, like lifting weights; it has two types: concentric (muscle shortens, e.g., lifting a bicep curl) and eccentric (muscle lengthens under load, e.g …
- lanthanide contractionthe progressive decrease in the radii of atoms of the lanthanide elements as the atomic number increases; evident in various physical properties of the elements and their compounds
- mutated contractionAn etymological phenomenon when a new word or slang term develops from shortening and slightly altering a longer word.
- wanna contractionA style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.
- haustral contractionAn involuntary movement of the haustrum in the colon that aids in digestion.
Compound words 15
- contractionalof or related to contraction
- cocontractionThe simultaneous contraction of two muscles
- contractionlessWithout contractions.
- supercontractionThe contraction (by up to 50%) of spider dragline silk in high humidity
- aftercontractionA contraction of a muscle some time after a stimulus has ceased.
- anticontractionPreventing uterine contractions during pregnancy.
- decontractionThe relaxation of muscle tissue following a previous contraction
- hypercontractionexcessive contraction
- intercontractionBetween successive contractions
- noncontractionAbsence of contraction.