Systole: alternatives and connections

The act of shortening, or reducing.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two d…

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable…

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of…

A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and so…

a syllable that ends with a consonant.; "The vowel in a closed syllable is short."

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…

The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…

Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.

A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his up…

involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease)