abbreviation

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noun

Plural noun:

abbreviationsabbr.abbrv.abbrev.

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

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amplification dilation enlargement expansionexpatiationextension production

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First attested 1400–50. From Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abreviation, from abbreviātiō, from Latin ad + breviō (shorten), from brevis (short). abbreviate.