(1) The costs the Contractor expects to incur under this contract in the next 60 days, when added to all costs previously incurred, will exceed 75 percent of the estimated cost specified in the Schedule; or.
1. tightening, narrowing, tensing, shortening, drawing in, constricting, shrinkage Cramp is caused by contraction of the muscles. 2. abbreviation, reduction, shortening, compression, diminution, constriction, elision `It's' is a contraction of `it is'. Translations.
shortening contraction a muscle contraction in which the ends of the muscle move closer together, as when a flexed limb is extended. tetanic contraction sustained muscular contraction without intervals of relaxation.tonic contraction tetanic c. twitch contraction twitch.ourglass contraction contraction of an organ, as the stomach or uterus, at or near the middle. isometric contraction muscle contraction without appreciable shortening or change in distance between its origin and insertion. Isotonic (A) and isometric (B) contraction.