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Abbreviation

Abbreviation Meaning & Definition
Abbreviation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Abbreviation?

[n] shortening something by omitting parts of it
[n] a shortened form of a word or phrase

Synonyms | Synonyms for Abbreviation:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Abbreviation: abbreviature | abrege | abridgment | abstract | apocope | aposiopesis | astriction | astringency | blue-penciling | bottleneck | bowdlerization | brief | cancellation | capsule | censoring | censorship | cervix | circumscription | clipping | coarctation | compactedness | compaction | compend | compression | compressure | concentration | condensation | condensed version | consolidation | conspectus | constriction | constringency | contraction | contracture | crasis | curtailment | cutting | decrease | deletion | digest | diminuendo | draft | editing | elision | ellipsis | epitome | erasure | expurgation | foreshortening | head | hourglass | hourglass figure | isthmus | knitting | narrow place | narrowing | neck | omission | outline | overview | pandect | precis | pruning | puckering | pursing | recap | recapitulation | reduction | retrenchment | review | rubric | shortened version | shortening | skeleton | sketch | solidification | stranglement | strangulation | striction | stricture | striking | summary | summation | survey | syllabus | syncope | syneresis | synopsis | systole | telescoping | thumbnail sketch | topical outline | truncation | wasp waist | wrinkling

See Also | apocope | form | shortening | signifier | word form

Abbreviation In Webster's Dictionary

\Ab*bre`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. abbreviatio: cf. F. abbr['e]viation.] 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 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. 4. (Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. --Moore.

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