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 (first-person possessive kontraksiku, second-person possessive kontraksimu, third-person possessive kontraksinya)

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
• mengontraksikan
• terkontraksi

 

Further reading

• “kontraksi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.