constriction

Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

constriction (countable and uncountable, plural constrictions)

1. The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
2. A narrow part of something; a stricture.
   • 1861, Robert Kaye Greville, Description of New and Rare Diatoms: Serie I-XX, page 78:

     […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]

3. A compression.

• constrict
• constraint
• constrain
• restriction

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constriction f (plural constrictions)

1. constriction

• “constriction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.