1) Abridgment 2) An act of abbreviating 3) Contraction 4) Descriptor 5) Form 6) French word used in English 7) Leap 8) Short form 9) Short form of a word or words 10) Short way around 11) Signifier 12) Word form
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- a shortened form of a word or phrase
- shortening something by omitting parts of it
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An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv. or abbrev. In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be con...
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• (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. • (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. • (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. • (n.) One dash, or...
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in communications (especially written), the process or result of representing a word or group of words by a shorter form of the word or phrase. ... [4 related articles]
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A shortened form of a word or phrase, e.g. DTP is an abbreviation of Desktop Publishing. See also Acronym.
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Ab·bre`vi·a'tion noun [ Late Latin
abbreviatio : confer French
abbréviation .]
1. The act of shortening, or reducing.
2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Tylor. 3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a l...
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An abbreviation is a short form of a word or words.
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In music, an abbreviation is one or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semi-quavers, or demi-semiquavers.
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n] - a shortened form of a word or phrase 2. [n] - shortening something by omitting parts of it
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abbreviation 1. The result of abbreviating; an abbreviated or reduced form; short summary, abridgement. 2. A shortened form of a spoken word, or written symbol; a part of a word or symbol standing for the whole.
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An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or group of words. For example: Co. (Company) approx. (approximately) PR (public relations) PTO (Please turn over) Some common abbreviations are of Latin terms: etc. (et cetera = and so on) e.g. (exempli gratia = for example) N.B. (nota bene = note especially) i.e. (id est = that is) Names of organi...
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noun a shortened form of a word or phrase
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Shortened form of a word or group of words, usually the initials (UN for United Nations, VIP for very important person). An abbreviation that is pronounced as a new word is an acronym (NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, radar for radio detecting and ranging; an abbreviation that uses the first and last letter of a word is a contractio...
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a short form of a word or phrase, for example: tbc = to be confirmed; CIA = the Central Intelligence Agency
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a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor,for United States, lb. for pound. · an act of abbreviating; state or result of being abbreviated; reduction in length, duration, etc.; abridgment.
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