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Abbreviation Definition And Meaning |
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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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