The difference between Contraction and Growth

When used as nouns, contraction means a reversible reduction in size, whereas growth means an increase in size, number, value, or strength.

check bellow for the other definitions of Contraction and Growth

  1. Contraction as a noun:

    A reversible reduction in size.

  2. Contraction as a noun (economics):

    A period of economic decline or negative growth.

    Examples:

    "The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices."

  3. Contraction as a noun (biology):

    A shortening of a muscle when it is used.

  4. Contraction as a noun (medicine):

    A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

  5. Contraction as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "In English ''didn't'', ''that's'', and ''wanna'', the endings ''-n't'', ''-'s'', and ''-a'' arose by contraction."

  6. Contraction as a noun (English orthography):

    A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

    Examples:

    "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."

  7. Contraction as a noun:

    A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.

  8. Contraction as a noun (medicine):

    Contracting a disease.

    Examples:

    "The contraction of AIDS from toilet seats is extremely rare."

  9. Contraction as a noun (phonetics):

    Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.

  10. Contraction as a noun:

    The acquisition of something, generally negative.

    Examples:

    "Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors."

  11. Contraction as a noun (medicine):

    A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

  1. Growth as a noun:

    An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

    Examples:

    "'Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China."

  2. Growth as a noun (biology):

    The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.

  3. Growth as a noun (biology):

    Something that grows or has grown.

  4. Growth as a noun (pathology):

    An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

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