ABBREVIATION

Abbreviation

An abbreviation 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.

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abbreviation

Noun

  1. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
  2. A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. The process of abbreviating. <ref name=SOED/>
  4. A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  5. One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
  6. Any convenient short form used as a substitutuion for an understood or inferred whole.
  7. Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
  8. Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.


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