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abbreviation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | word form, signifier, descriptor, form |
| Has types | initialism, apocope |
| Derivation | abbreviate |
abbreviation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | shortening |
Examples of abbreviation
abbreviation
If there is no common English abbreviation or symbol, use the ISO 4217 standard.
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Also Fledboro is I should think an abbreviation for Fledborough railway station.
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In the grisly abbreviation of the hospital industry, she was DOA-dead on arrival.
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He used it to find his way to an even starker abbreviation of a pitiless world.
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The date after the abbreviation is the date it appeared in your Sunday newspaper.
From the charlotteobserver.com
I'd make much more use of the abbreviation throughout the article, if I were you.
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The plural abbreviation Drs. can also mean doctorandus, a Dutch academic title.
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There should be two spaces between the province abbreviation and the postal code.
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The abbreviation UK, for United Kingdom, is acceptable for use in disambiguation.
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- A shortened form of a word or phrase
- Shortening something by omitting parts of it
- (abbreviate) abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- Shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
- (abbreviated) (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
- (abbreviated) cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) 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.
- A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: Dr; The act or result of shortening or reducing; One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers; Reduction to lower ...
- (abbreviated) Shortened; relatively short
