Example Sentences for gesture. But Shenac put his words aside with a gesture of indifference. Mr. Dill mumbled as he swung his arms in the gesture of swimming. His gesture, his courage, the look in his eye, would have made the wildest pony quail. Stuart waved aside the extended hand with a gesture of annoyance.
The definition of contraction is the lengthening or shortening of a muscle fiber or a word formed by combining the sounds of two longer words.1  An example of a contraction is the action of the uterus during the birth process. 2  An example of a contraction is the word doesn't from does not.ontraction-Computer Definition. The shortening of a word or phrase by omitting letters or syllables. In the English language, a contraction generally, but not always, marks the omitted letters or syllables with an apostrophe or a period. Telco, for example, is a contraction of telephone company.
(concentric action) the 'true' form of contraction of a muscle in which it shortens against a load (which may be only that of gravity on the relevant body part), and so does positive work. Hence concentric exercise: that in which the principal agonists act concentrically.See also muscle contraction.alled also shortening contraction. Dupuytren's contraction Dupuytren's contracture. eccentric contraction contraction in the presence of a resistive force that results in elongation of a muscle, used to perform negative work or to decelerate a body part.