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contraction: a period of general economic decline,one of the four stages of the business cycle
Category: Economics

contraction: the extent to which the cross-section area of a jet,nappe or stream is decreased after passing an orifice,weir or notch
Category: Building industry

contraction: a shortening or increase in tension,denoting the normal function of muscular tissue
Category: Medicine

supercontraction: a further contraction imposed on the throat width in a flumed structure; 2.the width of the supercontraction
Category: Building industry

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