Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: sametrekking
- Amharic: ቅድሚያ
- Arabic: انكماش
- Azerbaijani: azaldılması
- Bashkir: ҡыҫҡартыу
- Belarusian: скарачэнне
- Bulgarian: намаляване на
- Bengali: সংকোচন
- Bosnian: kontrakcije
- Catalan: contracció
- Cebuano: paghugtong
- Czech: kontrakce
- Welsh: cyfangiad
- Danish: sammentrækning
- German: Kontraktion
- Greek: συστολή
- Esperanto: kuntiriĝo
- Spanish: la contracción
- Estonian: kontraktsioon
- Basque: uzkurtu
- Persian: انقباض
- Finnish: supistuminen
- French: la contraction
- Irish: crapadh
- Scottish Gaelic: contraction
- Galician: contracción
- Gujarati: સંકોચન
- Hebrew: התכווצות
- Hindi: संकुचन
- Croatian: smanjenje
- Haitian: kontraksyon
- Hungarian: - összehúzódás
- Armenian: հապավումը
- Indonesian: kontraksi
- Icelandic: samdráttur
- Italian: contrazione
- Japanese: 収縮
- Javanese: kontrak
- Georgian: კლება
- Kazakh: қысқарту
- Khmer: ការធ្លាក់ចុះ
- Kannada: ಸಂಕೋಚನದ
- Korean: 수축
- Kyrgyz: кыскартуу
- Latin: contractio
- Luxembourgish: Ophält
- Lao: ສັນຍາ
- Lithuanian: susitraukimo
- Latvian: kontrakcijas
- Malagasy: contraction
- Mari: шагалемеш
- Maori: hukihuki
- Macedonian: контракција
- Malayalam: സങ്കോചനം
- Mongolian: агшилт
- Marathi: आकुंचन
- Hill Mari: иземдыме
- Malay: kontraksi
- Maltese: kontrazzjoni
- Burmese: ကျုံ့
- Nepali: संकोचन
- Dutch: krimp
- Norwegian: sammentrekning
- Punjabi: ਕਮੀ
- Papiamento: e contact
- Polish: zmniejszenie
- Portuguese: contração
- Romanian: contracția
- Russian: сокращение
- Sinhalese: සංකෝචනය
- Slovak: kontrakcie
- Slovenian: krčenje
- Albanian: tkurrja
- Serbian: скраћеница
- Sundanese: kontraksi
- Swedish: kontraktion
- Swahili: contraction
- Tamil: சுருக்கம்
- Telugu: సంకోచం
- Tajik: паст кардани
- Thai: การหดตัว
- Tagalog: pag-urong
- Turkish: kasılma
- Tatar: кыскарту
- Udmurt: сокращение
- Ukrainian: скорочення
- Urdu: سنکچن
- Uzbek: siqilish
- Vietnamese: co
- Xhosa: unciphiso lwegama
- Yiddish: צונויפצי
- Chinese: 收缩
Synonyms, close and similar words for contraction
- compression
- reduction
- retraction
- lossless compression
- shrinkage
- compressive
- compaction
- retrenchment
- diminution
- condensation
- constriction
- narrowing
- necking
- restriction
- stenosis
- stricture
- contracture
- clotting
- shortening
- convolution
- curtailment
- recession
- downturn
- cutback
- decline
- slump
- tapering
- decrease
- squeeze