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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The uterus should relax completely between contractions ... Auscultation of the fetal heart sounds should next be carried out ...  1, record 1, English, - contraction

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

L'utérus s'assouplit après la contraction, rendant à nouveau possible la perception du cœur du fœtus.  1, record 1, French, - contraction

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The cross-ship manifold is centre connected at the fuselage by a Z-shaped thermal expansion joint. This permits expansion or contraction of the ducts ...  2, record 2, English, - contraction

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

contraction: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).  3, record 2, English, - contraction

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Diminution du volume d'un corps, sans modification de sa masse.  2, record 2, French, - contraction

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

contraction : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).  3, record 2, French, - contraction

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The underlying obedience requires a horse that, free of any resistance or contraction, finds itself in the exact balance allowing it to perform the movement with good measure.  1, record 3, English, - contraction

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Réaction physique et musculaire du cheval inquiet ou mal préparé à une exigence entraînant une résistance psychique ou un durcissement musculaire.  1, record 3, French, - contraction

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A pulling together in the center of the body, so that ribcage and hips are brought closer to each other.  2, record 4, English, - contraction

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Beginning students may gain the feeling of the contraction while standing by imagining that a string is going through the center of the waist and that someone behind is pulling the string very slowly and then releasing it to allow the waist and hips to move back to place.  1, record 4, English, - contraction

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

raccourcissement des abdominaux et contraction simultanée des fessiers en position assise en tailleur.  2, record 4, French, - contraction

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Ainsi la contraction ne fait pas descendre le corps, c'est au contraire un étirement en flexion qui conduit à inverser la courbure lombaire et à approfondir la courbure dorsale. La convergence de l'activité musculaire, qui fait diriger les forces vers le centre moteur du plexus, rappelle l'image d'un animal qui se ramasse pour bondir. (Midol, Nancy, Théories et pratiques de la danse moderne, Paris, 1982, p. 40).  3, record 4, French, - contraction

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Ralentissement du rythme de l'activité économique.  1, record 5, French, - contraction

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A geometrical operation that decreases the size of a binary image. [ISO/IEC JTC N1746, 1995]  2, record 6, English, - contraction

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Tensor contraction.  2, record 6, English, - contraction

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Opération géométrique qui réduit la taille d'une image binaire. [ISO/CEI JTC N1746, 1995]  3, record 6, French, - contraction

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

D.hypothesis [which] involves the shrinking of the earth by one or more of the following processes: cooling; extrusion of volcanic material from the mantle; nuclear reactions that transform the silicate rocks  1, record 7, English, - contraction

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Lateral contraction.  2, record 7, English, - contraction

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

E.l'hypothèse ancienne supposait qu'après la formation de la croûte terrestre le noyau central avait continué à se refroidir provoquant une contraction de la Terre et amenant un plissement superficiel.  1, record 7, French, - contraction

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Contraction latérale.  2, record 7, French, - contraction

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The shortening and thickening of a muscle fiber or a muscle in action ...  2, record 8, English, - contraction

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Diminution de volume ou de longueur d'un muscle, d'un organe.  1, record 8, French, - contraction

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A property of dissipative systems whose surface given by initial conditions shrinks in time.  3, record 9, English, - area%20contraction

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Clearly any contraction is a continuous mapping. The ratio of the contraction is the infinum value for which the inequality ... holds. A contraction that transforms every subset of an n-dimensional euclidean space into a geometrically similar set is called a similitude.  4, record 9, English, - area%20contraction

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Contrast with area conservation characteristic of Hamiltonian systems. See also dilation and divergence.  3, record 9, English, - area%20contraction

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Propriété distinctive d'un système dissipatif dont la surface des conditions initiales diminue en moyenne au cours du temps.  3, record 9, French, - contraction%20des%20aires

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

On dit, par exemple, que le flot «contracte» les aires dans l'espace des phases. En modélisation fractale, une image peut être soumise à une contraction isotrope c'est-à-dire, appliquée simultanément dans toutes les directions. Dérivés attestés : contractivité, contractant (adjectif).  3, record 9, French, - contraction%20des%20aires

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 PHR

contraction des aires anisotrope, isotrope, radiale.  3, record 9, French, - contraction%20des%20aires

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 2 PHR

facteur, divergence de contraction des aires.  3, record 9, French, - contraction%20des%20aires

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A drawing together of the buttresses causing a constriction of the hoof.  2, record 10, English, - hoof%20bound

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Resserrement des parties postérieures du pied localisé d'abord aux talons, mais qui peut s'étendre aux deux quartiers.  1, record 10, French, - encastelure

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Term(s) officially approved by CP Rail.  2, record 11, English, - contraction

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Terme(s) uniformisé(s) par CP Rail.  2, record 11, French, - contraction

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Shortening or any decrease in size of fiber or fabric.  2, record 12, English, - contraction

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Mercerisage des tissus [...] Pour les tissus il faut tenir compte du fait que la soude les contracte en chaîne et en trame. La contraction chaîne est évitée en les enroulant sur une ensouple.  2, record 12, French, - contraction

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Contraction de frisure.  3, record 12, French, - contraction

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The extent to which the cross-sectional area of a nappe or stream is decreased.  1, record 13, English, - contraction

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Diminution de la section d'un écoulement.  1, record 13, French, - contraction

Record 13,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 14,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

For direct tension loading, e is an elongation; for direct compression loading, e is a contraction.  1, record 14, English, - contraction

Record 14,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Raccourcissement subi par une fibre [...] proportionnelle à la distance de cette fibre à la fibre neutre.  1, record 14, French, - raccourcissement

Record 14,  Textual support,  Spanish