Sentence examples for contraction means from inspiring English sources

He says he doesn't even know what contraction means.

8.05am GMT That 0.1% contraction means France's economy has been outperformed by Spain for the first time since early 2009.

The 2012 season has been shortened by two weeks but the contraction means the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris will now be rammed up directly against London, with barely enough time for the finalists to catch the Eurostar and get to the practice courts of the O2 Arena.

Two or more consecutive quarters of contraction mean the economy is officially in recession.

And two consecutive three-month periods of contraction mean an economy is in recession.

Mean firing rate showed only a modest increase up to 30% of maximal voluntary contraction (mean firing rate increasing from 10.1 to 10.8 Hz).

Histopathological findings correlated well with wound contractions, mean epithelisation time study and the biochemical marker test of hydroxyproline.

"What we found was that oil blocked key processes in the cardiac cells involved with linking excitation to contraction, which means that beat to beat, we slowed the heart cells down and we also decreased their contractility," Barbara Block, a professor of marine sciences at Stanford, told BBC News.

For Russia to teeter on the brink of prolonged economic contraction undoubtedly means pain for its citizens, but it might also be a blow to its newly assertive posture on the world stage unless, that is, Putin decides to make a big move like re-establishing Russian hegemony over another lost limb of the Soviet Union.

Some factors that may affect the degree of stationary of experimentally IPI data are duration of contraction, the means of force production, and the level of contraction.

Ventilation decreases your chance of contraction, that means avoid crowds (at the airport).