Contraction in a sentence as a noun

In a cyclic industry with big swings of expansion and contraction, this is a very big deal.

We still grew, except at the very end, and the "contraction" then was miniscule a few hundred dollars out of $20k+/mo.

" That being said dealing with the expansion and contraction of wood is hardly a semi-secret of joinery.

Or that saving > spending doesn't mean a contraction in the economy, by the magic of Austerian Economics.

Everything that grows will eventually experience contraction; the problem is that companies don't know how to contract in a decent way.

Fractional reserve is not necessarily a bad method to allow for risk assessed expansion and contraction of money supply.> ...blah blah... make it certain that ...

Expansion and contraction of wood is a fundamental concept in joinery and cabinetmaking.

And most of those studies were done with maximal voluntary isometric contraction -- ie pushing as hard as possible against an immobile object.

The rest of the country is slogging along with poor growth or outright contraction and I think it is wonderful that somewhere people are still bringing good ideas and hungry money together.

It's very common for healthy people to have occasional 'premature ventricular contractions' where some random cell in the heart decides it's pissed off and wants to contract early.

We basically want our models to coordinate with the actual heartbeat at only two exact moments, during the beginning of contraction and relaxation.

Every once in a while though, one of those PVCs occurs during that recharging phase, which can be very bad... So, a 'perfectly' healthy person _can_ throw a PVC, end up with an R-on-T contraction, and whamo... they're dead.

The utter economic clusterfuck in Europe is because too many people in controlling the Euro felt the way the OP does, so you have countries like Greece and Spain cutting their budgets to eliminate deficits, yet resulting in such a harsh economic contraction that their budgets end up with even bigger deficits.

Contraction definitions

noun

(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

noun

the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

See also: compression condensation

noun

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"

noun

the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope