Constriction

[kən'strɪkʃn] or [kən'strɪkʃən]

解释:

(noun.) the action or process of compressing.

(noun.) a tight feeling in some part of the body; 'he felt a constriction in her chest'; 'she felt an alarming tightness in her chest'; 'emotion caused a constriction of his throat'.

(noun.) tight or narrow compression.

(noun.) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel.

杰弗里校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

(n.) The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.

整理:玛米

同义词及近义词：

n. Contraction, compression.

编辑:罗伊