What is another word for "contraction"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "contraction": abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridge, abridgment, abstract, air, album, alley, analecta, analectic, analysis, anatomy, and, angustation, anthology, anticlimax, apercu, attenuate, away, bar, bate, blind, block, blockade, bolt, bone, book, breadth, brief, bung, button, caecal, caecum, choke, clinch, close, closeness.