contraction
Contraction (from the Latin prefix con "together" and trahere "pull") stands for:
- Contraction (linguistics) , contraction of two sounds into one sound
- in ancient verse the realization of an elementum biceps with a long syllable
- Muscle contraction , shortening of muscles
- in some viruses with a head-to-tail structure (i.e. of the order Caudovirales ), the shortening of the tail portion when the genetic material is injected into the infected host cell (tail contraction)
- Compaction of rock through development, see settlement (construction)
Physics:
- thermal contraction with changing temperature, see thermal expansion
- Contraction by increasing pressure, see compression module
- Contraction in volume , reducing the volume of the mixing of two substances
- Lorentz contraction in special relativity
- Kelvin-Helmholtz contraction in star formation
- Lateral contraction from the application of tension
- in planet formation, the phase of formation from many small planetesimals
- a decrease in volume with a phase transition
- Wick contraction in quantum field theory
Mathematics:
- Tensor rejuvenation , an illustration to reduce the level of a tensor or a tensor field
- Contraction (mathematics) , a Lipschitz continuous mapping with Lipschitz constant less than 1
- Edge contraction , a fundamental operation on graphs in graph theory
See also:
- Contraction Theory in Earth Development and Mountain Building
- Lanthanide contraction , d. H. decreasing ionic radius with increasing atomic number of the lanthanides from lanthanum (57) to lutetium (71)
Wiktionary: Contraction - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
