A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
The act of adding anything.
The arithmetic operation of adding.
Anything that is added.
A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
A period of economic decline or negative growth.
Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
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.
A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
A reversible reduction in size.
A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
The process of contracting a disease.
A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
A shortening of a muscle during its use.