constriction
/kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/
constriction noun: the act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
Noun
constriction (countable and uncountable, plural constrictions)
- The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
- The very structural uniqueness of Esperanto makes it hard to translate into ethnic languages – not least because many of those who write in Esperanto do so out of their rejection of the constriction that they experience when writing in their native languages.2008, Humphrey Tonkin, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887–2007, Mondial, →ISBN, page 2
- A narrow part of something; a stricture.
- […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]1861, Robert Kaye Greville, Description of New and Rare Diatoms: Serie I-XX, page 78
- A compression.
constriction meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
constriction in Tamil
- இடுக்கு, ஒடுக்கு, சுருக்கு, சுருக்கம், தொடர் சுருக்கம், நுண் குறுக்கம்
constriction in Malayalam
- constriction
- ഇടുക്കം iṭukkaṁ, ഇടുക്ക് iṭukkŭ
More languagesFewer languages
- Kashmiri
- ژۆمرَن ċomran
Forms of constriction
| plural | constrictions |
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Origin of constriction
Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.
Words formed from constriction
Words that rhyme with constriction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
- fiction
30 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about constriction
- What does constriction mean?
- Constriction means the act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
- What is constriction in Tamil?
- Constriction in Tamil is இடுக்கு, ஒடுக்கு, சுருக்கு. See Constriction meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is constriction?
- Constriction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce constriction?
- Constriction is pronounced /kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of constriction?
- The plural of constriction is constrictions.
Words near constriction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: constriction (page history and authors); constriction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഇടുക്കം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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