constriction
(noun) the action or process of compressing
constriction, tightness
(noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body; “he felt a constriction in her chest”; “she felt an alarming tightness in her chest”; “emotion caused a constriction of his throat”
constriction, coarctation
(noun) tight or narrow compression
constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint
(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
constriction (countable and uncountable, plural constrictions)
The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
A narrow part of something; a stricture.
A compression.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*stric"tion, n. Etym: [L. constrictio: cf. F. constriction.]
1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 September 2024
(adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
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