Contraction

"Contraction" in Italian

contrazione

((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)

contrazione

(process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme are reduced or lost)

contrazione

(shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark)

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