Dictionary

constriction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin cōn- Proto-Indo-European *streyg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *strinégti Proto-Italic *stringō Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréngʰeti Proto-Italic *strengō Latin stringō Latin cōnstringō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Late Latin cōnstrictiōbor. English constriction Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
   • The very structural uniqueness of Esperanto makes it hard to translate into ethnic languages – not least because many of those who write in Esperanto do so out of their rejection of the constriction that they experience when writing in their native languages. 2008, Humphrey Tonkin, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887–2007, Mondial, →ISBN, page 2:
2. (countable, uncountable) A narrow part of something; a stricture.
   • […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […] 1861, Robert Kaye Greville, Description of New and Rare Diatoms: Serie I-XX, page 78:
3. (countable, uncountable) A compression.

Forms

Deriveds

bronchoconstriction · vasoconstriction · pupilloconstriction · reconstriction · preconstriction · arterioconstriction · hyperconstriction · nanoconstriction · constriction ring syndrome

Relateds

restriction · constraint · constrict · constrain

Translations (11)

bg свиване (the act of narrowing) · bg стягане (the act of narrowing) · bg стеснение (A narrow part of something; a stricture) · ca constricció (the act of narrowing) · ga ainleog (the act of narrowing) · ks ژۆمرَن (the act of narrowing) · sv förträngning (A narrow part of something; a stricture) · ru сужение (A narrow part of something; a stricture) · sv förträngning (the act of narrowing) · cs zúžení (the act of narrowing) · es constricción (the act of narrowing)