Meaning of abbreviation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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 +, =, @.
   countable, uncountable
3. The process of abbreviating.
   countable, uncountable
4. A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
   countable, uncountable
5. One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
   countable, uncountable
6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
   countable, uncountable
7. Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
   countable, uncountable
8. Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.”

“Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.”

“The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.”

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