(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.
Labor Contractions. Labor contractions are the periodic tightening and relaxing of the uterine muscle, the largest muscle in a woman's body. Something triggers the pituitary gland to release a hormone called oxytocin that stimulates the uterine tightening.abor contractions are the periodic tightening and relaxing of the uterine muscle, the largest muscle in a woman's body.