"Contraction" (Chinese: 坍缩, Pinyin: tānsuō) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It was published in Science Fiction World in...

expanding the premise Contraction, short story by Liu Cixin about time during the contraction of the universe What's Expected of Us, short story by Ted Chiang...

Title Year Contraction 2005...

along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table. Contractions are only shown if their orthography is distinctive. There are also numerous...

any branch of military service - Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. A contraction of military and blog. Moblog A portmanteau of "mobile" and "blog". A...

co-contraction in which force builds up in the large, pennate extensor tibiae muscle, but the tibia is kept flexed by the simultaneous contraction of...

beneath the skin, covers the entire body. By contraction of various parts of the panniculus carnosus, the short-beaked echidna can change shape, the most...

private collections. A very advanced form of lie detector that measures contractions of the iris muscle and the presence of invisible airborne particles emitted...

columns visible on the formation were created by the slow cooling and contraction of lava, resulting in hexagonal columns typical of columnar basalt formations...

December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York...

Y'all (pronounced /jɔːl/ yawl) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern...

announced another adaptation in the works. The cinematic adaptation of his short story The Wandering Earth was released in China on 5 February 2019, which became...

was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps. Stalag is a contraction of "Stammlager", itself short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager, literally...

as the beginning of a period of expansion that followed a period of contraction. In this view, one could talk of a "Big Crunch" followed by a "Big Bang"...

corresponds to commanding a section or squad of soldiers. The word is a contraction from the medieval Italian phrase capo corporale (transl. head of a body...

similar Persian name, Shahbāz (شهباز) meaning 'royal falcon' or 'eagle' (a contraction of shāh, "king" and bāz "hawk, falcon"), popular among Bosnian, Turkish...

Best Foreign Language Film for his Children of Nature. It features the story of an old man who is unable to continue running his farm. After being unwelcomed...

her out. Later, Cassandra takes Amy to the hospital with Braxton Hicks contractions. Jade and Clay's rivalry becomes increasingly childish. Tim organizes...

displacement of Muslims out of the Balkans during the era of territorial contraction of the Ottoman Empire has become a topic of recent scholarly interest...

and a collection of trailing tentacles on the underside. Via pulsating contractions, the bell can provide propulsion for locomotion through open water. The...

varying from a few times daily to a few times weekly. Waves of muscular contraction (known as peristalsis) in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through...

(1753–1829) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", "to impose upon" or (according...

Argentina, as well as New York. Tulloch goes by "Bitsie", which is not a contraction of her given name, Elizabeth, but an homage to her oddly nicknamed grandfather...

oxygen burning processes. Silicon burning begins when gravitational contraction raises the star's core temperature to 2.7–3.5 billion kelvins (GK). The...

it should be done. However, the phrase "pay the piper" may also be a contraction of the English proverb "he who pays the piper calls the tune." This proverb...

editions) is a collection of eleven science-fiction short stories by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Two short stories won the Galaxy Award. "The Village Teacher",...

intense sexual pleasure resulting in rhythmic, involuntary muscular contractions in the pelvic region. Orgasms are controlled by the involuntary or autonomic...

ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light. Adam Kadmon is not the same as the physical...

growth rate averaging −18%. The Latvian economy entered a phase of fiscal contraction during the second half of 2008 after an extended period of credit-based...

(82 mph). A 2016 study estimated maximum swimming speeds from muscle contraction times, which in turn limit the tail-beat frequency; the study suggested...