kontraksi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch contractie, from Middle French contraction, from Old French contraction, from Latin contractiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɔnˈtrak̚si]
  • Hyphenation: kon‧trak‧si

Noun

kontraksi (plural kontraksi-kontraksi)

  1. contraction:
    1. a reversible reduction in size
      Synonyms: pengerutan, penegangan
    2. (physiology) a shortening of a muscle during its use
      Synonyms: penegangan, pengerasan, penguncupan
    3. (obstetrics) a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth
    4. (surgery) a distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together
      Synonym: kerunyutan
    5. (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

Hyponyms

  • kontraksi otot eksentrik
  • kontraksi otot sepusat
  • kontraksi peristaltik

Derived terms

  • berkontraksi
  • dikontraksikan
  • mengontraksikan
  • terkontraksi

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