shorthand
• (n.) The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
Ta·chyg'ra·phy noun [ Greek 
Tachygraphy (stenography) is the art or practice of rapid writing or shorthand writing.
tachygraphy 1. The shorthand system used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. 2. The abbreviated cursive writing used in medieval times for Latin and Greek.tachygraphy, tachygraph, tachygraphic, tachygraphical 1. The name of ancient Greek and Roman shorthand systems; literally, `fast or speed writing”. 2. Cursive writing. 3. The art or practice of quick writing; variously applied to shorthand, and (in paleography) to cursive as distinguished from angular letters, to the Egyptian hieratic, and to the...