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Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part..

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Shortening :: Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorte.

Apocopation :: Apocopation (n.) Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree..

Coronary :: Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack..

Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Systole :: Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

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