Meaning of CONTRACTION
Pronunciation: | | kun'trakshun
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Matching Terms: | | contractions
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| Definition: | | reduction |
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| Related Terms: | | abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, alleviation, apocope, aposiopesis, attenuation, brachygraphy, clipping, coarctation, constriction, crasis, cutting, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, dying, dying off, elision, ellipsis, extenuation, fade-out, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, narrowing, phonography, pruning, reduction, relaxation, sagging, scaling down, shortening, shorthand, simplicity, Speedwriting, stenography, stricture, subtraction, syncope, syneresis, tachygraphy, taper, tapering, truncation, weakening |
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