abbreviation
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
abbreviation
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
- (linguistics) 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 +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]
- The process of abbreviating. [Mid 16th century.]
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- abbreviature; abridgement; abstract; compend; compression; condensation; contraction; curtailment; epitome; reduction; shortcut; summary
- French: abréviation
- German: Abkürzung, Kurzbezeichnung, Kürzel, Kurzform, Abbreviation, Abbreviatur
- Italian: abbreviazione, abbreviatura, acronimo
- Portuguese: abreviação, abreviatura
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: abreviación
- Italian: riassunto
- German: Abkürzung, Kürzen
- Italian: abbreviazione
- Portuguese: abreviatura, abreviação
- Russian: сокраще́ние
- Spanish: abreviación
- Italian: abbreviazione
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