But, by 1903, he understood that an antigen induces the production of immune bodies ( antibodies ) and wrote that the word antigen is a contraction of " Antisomatogen

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

Hence, with the addition of more, or the contraction, mor, we have the word MOR-MON ; which means, literally, more good.

The word pixel is based on a contraction of pix (" pictures ") and el ( for " element "); similar formations with el for " element " include the words voxel

In English, " state " is a contraction of the word " estate ", which is similar to the old French estat and the modern French état, both of which signify that a person has status and therefore estate.

In western European cultures, women do not bow, they " curtsey " ( a contraction of " courtesy " that became its own word ), a movement in which one foot is moved back and the entire body lowered to a crouch while the head is bowed.

The British philologist Robert Nares ( 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 " to befuddle often with drugged liquor ".

Its name may be a contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning " bag tied in the middle ".

Riba, リバ ( a contraction of the English word " reversible ") is used to describe a couple that yaoi fans think is still plausible when the partners switch their seme / uke roles.

Writer Richard Meltzer, in his The Aesthetics of Rock, commented on Love's " orchestral moves ", " post-doper word contraction cuteness " and Lee's vocal style that serves as a " reaffirmation of Johnny Mathis ".

An example is the word courriel ( a contraction of courrier électronique ), the Quebec French term for e-mail, which was initially being favoured by the French Ministry of Culture and is now widely used among the Quebec public, but largely ignored in France.

" Dobro " is both a contraction of " Dopyera brothers " and a word meaning " goodness " in their native Slovak ( and also in Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian ).

The adjective or noun Scotch is an early modern English ( 16th century ) contraction of the English word Scottish which was later adopted into the Scots language.

The word " sheriff " is a contraction of the term " shire reeve ".

The word is a contraction of attorney and cartoon.

When served with a layer of fried noodles ( either yakisoba or udon ), the resulting dish is called, the name of which may be derived from the English word " modern " or as a contraction of, meaning " a lot " or " piled high " signifying the volume of food from having both yakisoba and udon.

One theory is that it may come from the Indonesian word tjakalele., another is that it's a contraction of Kamot Lihok ( Cebuano for hand-body movement ) The multitude of languages spoken in the 7, 107 islands have not only diverged into over 170 dialects, but they have been constantly mixing with one another and as a result, Filipino martial arts comprise a vocabulary of heterogeneous terms.

However, Bailey was never explicit about the etymology of the word, and it has been suggested that it is a contraction of the words cultigen and variety, which seems more appropriate.

In crasis ( contraction of two words ), when the second word has a rough breathing, the contracted vowel does not take a rough breathing.

Journalist Bruno de Latour coined the term domotic in 1984. Domotic has been recently introduced in vocabulary as a composite word of Latin word domus and informatics, or a contraction of domestic robotics, and it refers to intelligent houses meaning the use of the automation technologies and computer science applied to the home.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

-- Glycerinated muscle, in the presence of the physiological agent ( ATP ) responsible for delivering energy to the mechanochemically active proteins of muscle, has been shown to undergo a contraction which is highly sensitive both to temperature and to solvent composition in mixtures of alcohols and water.

The vagina is an organ capable of remarkable contraction and dilation.

Austin is a given name and surname, an English language contraction of Augustine.

These are then closed with valves and the air is forced into the lungs by contraction of the throat.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

A contraction is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not necessarily a contraction.

Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.

This kind of abbreviation is known as a contraction in the UK.

A bit ( a contraction of binary digit ) is the basic capacity of information in computing and telecommunications ; a bit can have the value of either 1 or 0 ( one or zero ) only.

Although Burundi is potentially self-sufficient in food production, the ongoing civil war, overpopulation, and soil erosion have contributed to the contraction of the subsistence economy by 25 % in recent years.

B was greatly influenced by BCPL, and its name is most likely to be a contraction of BCPL.

The electrical part of the heart is centered on the periodic contraction ( squeezing ) of the muscle cells that is caused by the cardiac pacemaker located in the sinoatrial node.

Rhythmic contraction is necessary for efficient movement of blood and fibrillation disrupts this rhythm sufficiently to cause cardiac arrest.

Cranial nerve number 5 ( CN V ), and its ophthalmic branch ( V < sub > 1 </ sub >) are responsible for the afferent arm of the reflex, and the cranial nerve number 7 ( CN VII ) also known a facial nerve, is responsible for the efferent arm, causing contraction of the muscle orbicularis oculi resulting in closing of the eyes.

In mathematics, a contraction mapping, or contraction, on a metric space ( M, d ) is a function f from M to itself, with the property that there is some nonnegative real number < math > k < 1 </ math > such that for all x and y in M,

Another, completely different, attempt to save " absolute " aether was made in the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis, which posited that everything was affected by travel through the aether.

The chemical abbreviation for sodium was first published by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in his system of atomic symbols, and is a contraction of the element's new Latin name natrium, which refers to the Egyptian natron, a natural mineral salt primarily made of hydrated sodium carbonate.

After an economic contraction of 2. 1 % in 1993, Senegal made an important turnaround, thanks to the reform program, with a growth in GDP averaging over 5 % annually during 1995-2004.

In 2001-02, Argentine citizens made massive withdrawals of dollars deposited in Uruguayan banks after bank deposits in Argentina were frozen, which led to a plunge in the Uruguayan peso, a banking crisis, and a sharp economic contraction.

Milton Friedman's A Monetary History of the United States, co-written with Anna Schwartz, makes the argument that what made the " great contraction " so severe was not the downturn in the business cycle, protectionism, or the 1929 stock market crash.

This is made possible by a hyoid mechanism, which is the contraction of the hyoid muscle that drives the tip of the tongue outwards.

The most noted change made for network broadcast was the replacing of Buford's often-spoken phrase " Sumbitch " ( a contraction of " Son of a Bitch "; usually in reference to the Bandit ) with the nonsense phrase " Scum Bum ".

Second, he made new calculation of the evolution of stars during their early history when gravitational contraction provides the main energy source, and during the transition phase when nuclear energy takes over from the gravitational source.

Once the female dog has been stabilized, then the treatment of choice is an emergency spay, to remove the infected organ, but as this prevents a female dog from breeding it is worth noting that some advances have been made in treating pyometra with long-term antibiotics and an agent to cause contraction of the uterus and expulsion of the pus.

Through the relativistic effect of length contraction, the ladder can be made to fit into the garage by running it into the garage at a high enough speed.

From this perspective, the garage is made even smaller and it is impossible to fit the ladder into the garage. Figure 3: In the ladder frame, the garage undergoes length contraction and seems too small to contain the ladder.

The second disc Bonus Material Edit – Strikes Back, which is likely a contraction of the second made Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back, focuses more on rhythm and long stretches of film-inspired " dance " music without the heavy inventiveness of the previous disc.

Midiboard was broadly understood to be a contraction of Midi and Piano keyboard, and, to some extent, the term became synonymous with keyboards sold without sound synthesis during the later part of the 1980s to address the needs of performance artists who needed a master keyboard to control racks of Midi synthesis modules ( synthesizers without keyboards ), a separation that was made possible by MIDI technology.