FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n A reversible reduction in size.

n (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.

n (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.

n (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

n (linguistics) 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.

n (context|English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

n (medicine) contract | Contracting a disease.

n (phonetics) syncope | Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.

n The acquisition of something, generally negative.

n (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.