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 Translation for 'shortening' from English to Slovak
NOUN   shortening | shortenings
VERB   to shorten | shortened | shortened
shortening | shortens
skrátenie {n}shortening
skracovanie {n}shortening
gastr.potr.
stužený tuk {m}
shortening
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Translation for 'shortening' from English to Slovak

shortening
skrátenie {n}

skracovanie {n}

stužený tuk {m}gastr.potr.
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Usage Examples English
  • Surgery is a solution to muscle shortening but other complications may arise.
  • In April 2018, the GMAC officially shortened the test by half an hour, shortening the verbal and quantitative sections from 75 minutes each to 65 and 62 minutes, respectively, and shortening some of the instruction screens.
  • Shortening bread refers to a bread made of corn meal and/or flour and lard shortening.
  • In terms of tectonics at Zona Sur the South American Plate is experiencing a long-term ENE-WSW shortening. This shortening is accommodated by strike-slip faults.
  • A stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) is an active stretch (eccentric contraction) of a muscle followed by an immediate shortening (concentric contraction) of that same muscle.

  • The incipient shear foliation typically forms normal to the direction of principal shortening, and is diagnostic of the direction of shortening.
  • The shortening of diphthongs remains allophonic due to the preservation of quantity 3 length, but the shortening of long vowels that result from diphthong simplification is phonemic.
  • Thoracic dysplasia-hydrocephalus syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by shortening of the ribs, narrowing of the chest, mild shortening of the limbs (rhizomelia), hydrocephalus, and variable developmental delays.
  • Both the timing and the cause of the observed north–south shortening is uncertain.
  • This hypothesis is mainly based on the observation of crustal shortening deficit in the Himalayas.

  • The idea of shortening dates back to at least the 18th century, well before the invention of modern, shelf-stable vegetable shortening.
  • In mathematics, the curve-shortening flow is a process that modifies a smooth curve in the Euclidean plane by moving its points perpendicularly to the curve at a speed proportional to the curvature.
  • It is sometimes also defined as the ratio between muscle-shortening velocity and fiber-shortening velocity.
  • The shortening and lengthening was caused by quantitative metathesis, the switching of vowel lengths. In the forms where there is no lengthening, the change is simply vowel shortening.
  • The Bitly URL shortening service became popular on Twitter after it became the default URL shortening service on the website on May 6, 2009.

  • The term also refers to shortening of closed syllables following a short syllable, for example [...] and so on.
  • One is that simply there is no shortening here. It is generally thought, however, that in the case of [...] at least there is likely to be shortening, since [...] is usually shortened before a noun.
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