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