01 n. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
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The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
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The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.“A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.” — Grew.