vs.

    contraction 对比 expansion
    分析 词典对比 组词对比
    (1).中国译典 contraction expansion
    n.
    ①[U]收缩,缩小;缩短,缩减;
    扩展解释:n.
    1. 收缩;缩短[U][S1]2. 【语】缩短,缩约;缩短形,缩约形式[U][C]3. 【解】收缩,挛缩[U][C]4. 【经】收缩,紧缩[U]5. (疾病的)感染;(恶习的)沾染;(债的)背负[U]
    【医学】 【医学】
    收缩, 挛缩, 缩短
    【海运】
    收缩,收敛(太阳、月亮视半径的)缩短(因大气影响)
    n.
    ①[U]张开;伸展;
    扩展解释:n. 【法律专业】
    扩大管理权限 ,扩张
    【电脑术语】
    展开,扩展[充],放大;【数】展开式
    n.
    1. 扩展;扩张;膨胀[U]2. 扩大物[C]
    n. 【机械】
    展开,扩展
    n. 【化学】
    扩张,展开式,延伸率
    N/A
    (=clavacin)棒曲霉素
    (2).维基词典 contraction expansion
    A reversible reduction in size.
    A period of economic decline or negative growth.
    A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
    A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
    A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
    A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
    A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
    The process of contracting a disease.
    Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
    The acquisition of something, generally negative.
    A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
    The act or process of expanding.
    The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
    A new addition.
    A product to be used with a previous product.
    That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
    The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
    (3).韦伯斯特词典 contraction expansion
    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 tendon; 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.
    The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
    That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
    Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
    an increase in the production of goods and services over time, and in the volume of business transactions, generally associated with an increase in employment and an increase in the money supply. Opposite of contraction.
    The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
    The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
    The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
    an enlarged or extended version of something, such as a writing or discourse; as, the journal article is an expansion of the lecture she gave.
    an expansion joint. See below.
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