Abbreviation

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English

Noun

Abbreviation (plural Abbreviations)
  1. A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: Dr.
  2. The act or result of shortening or reducing.
  3. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers.
  4. (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Adjectives for Abbreviation

offensive; delicate; apt; cryptic; unintelligible; suggestive; recognizable; remote; felicitous.

Synonyms for Abbreviation

abridgment, contraction, abstraction, shortening, curtailment.

Antonyms for Abbreviation

enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, augmentation.

Thesaurus

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

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Etymology

Established 1400–50. From late Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abréviation, from Late Latin abbreviātiō, from ab (from) + abbreviō (shorten, abridge).

Pronunciation

  • (RP) IPA: /əˌbriːviˈeɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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