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Contraction meaning
Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract. | An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative). | Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
Synonyms of Contraction
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The sell-off in equities was not because of earnings contraction, it was because of multiple contraction.
After the large 23.9% y-o-y contraction in Q1, we expect a narrower contraction of 7.9% y-o-y for Q2, reflecting the uptick in demand as explained above.
Therefore, the contraction of demand broadly matches the contraction of supply in a stagnating economy.
The economic cycle as defined in preceding articles in the series of economics stories on disaster economies is the journey a country takes over the years, from economic contraction to economic expansion, and then back to contraction.
Contraction If T is a tree of MST edges, then we can contract'' T into a single vertex while maintaining the invariant that the MST of the contracted graph plus T gives the MST for the graph before contraction.
It is the only exception to the general trend of the contraction of the atoms with increase of atomic radius (caused by the lanthanide contraction citation ) that is not caused by the filled (or half-filled) 4f-subshell.
It was also pointed out that the actinide contraction at the end of the actinide series was larger than the analogous lanthanide contraction, with the exception of the last actinide, lawrencium: the cause was speculated to be relativistic effects.
Negative questions are formed similarly; however if the verb undergoing inversion has a contraction with not, then it is possible to invert the subject with this contraction as a whole.
Verb: clavarder citation * courriel, meaning "e-mail", a contraction of courrier électronique (electronic mail) citation * pourriel, meaning "spam e-mail", is a contraction of poubelle (garbage) and courriel (email).
Vfib results from uncoordinated contraction of the ventricles and defibrillation acts as a 'reset' to synchronize contraction (i.
According to ESPN, Luka Modric has signed an extra one-year contraction extension to keep him at Real Madrid until June 2024, as announced by the Club on Monday.
After showing contraction each month between April and October, mainland China's exports returned to positive growth in November, albeit marginal expansion of just 0.5% y/y measured in USD terms.
Against this backdrop, at the beginning of October, the for the German economy's contraction, now predicting a drop in GDP of -0.5% versus the previous -0.3% for 2023, by far the worst annual performance of the bloc's economies.
America may be headed for a recession and this will prove more essential than ever if there is a contraction of our economy and people suffer job losses.
Among the services sectors, the wholesale and retail trade as well as transportation and storage sectors collectively grew by 2.6 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, a turnaround from the 0.7 per cent contraction in the previous quarter.
Any figure below 50 points signifies a contraction, but the final June manufacturing PMI number was a bit better than the preliminary figure of 45.5 points.
Any PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion, while levels below that represent contraction.
Apparently, cosmic inflation attempts to account for this as the universe seesaws back and forth between expansion and contraction.
A reading below 50.0 points to contraction.
As recently as April, economists were expecting a mild contraction in the third and fourth quarter.