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contractionnoun the act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressingmost substances undergo contraction when cooled compacting, compaction, compression, condensation, condensing, constricting, constriction, contracting, squeeze, squeezing, telescoping abbreviation, abridgment(or abridgement), curtailment, shorteningconcentration, consolidationsimplification, streamliningdecreasing, diminishment, lessening decompression, expansion dilation, dispersion, dissipation, scatteringdistension(or distention), inflation, swelling in the 15th century |