Meaning of CONTRACTION in Gujarati

Use in sentences of સંકોચન

Meaning of CONTRACTION in English

• The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
• The process of shortening an operation.
• The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
• Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
• The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
• A marriage contract.

Synonyms of ‘સંકોચન’

• સંકોચન
  CONTRACTION,
• બહેકાવનાર
  ABETTER,
• સંક્ષેપ
  ABBREVIATION, COMPENDIUM, COMPRESSION, PRECIS, COMPENDIUMS, CONTRACTION,
• અક્ષર-સંક્ષેપ
  CONTRACTION,
• આકુંચન
  CONTRACTION,

Antonyms of ‘સંકોચન’

• EXPANSION

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