A reversible reduction in size.
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 shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
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.
The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
The presentation of a theatrical work.
The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
The act of producing, making or creating something.
A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
The act of being produced.
Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
An extension or protrusion.
That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
The total amount produced.