Meaning of deabbreviate | Babel Free

Definitions

To expand (an abbreviation).

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Examples

“Simplified Main Stress⟳ Rule⟳ in Deabbreviated Form⟳”

“Deabbreviating means replacing an abbreviated name⟳ with a more understandable "natural" one consisting of whole English words. To deabbreviate, we "generate-and-test": We select⟳ candidates and abbreviate them various ways, trying to obtain⟳ a match⟳ with a given abbreviation.”

“To me there is no better way to define⟳ the slums than what the authors have⟳ done by deabbreviating SLUM (‘Sombre life of underprivileged mankind’).”

“The first visualization construct is apt: it replaces three items (two arrows and the marker) by one item in a natural and clear-how-to-deabbreviate way.”

“What is NLP? Can it be any broader a title? Indeed, what is it? I don’t actually think⟳ it makes it any easier to “deabbreviate” it – its^([sic]) Neuro Linguistic Programming.”

“STP […] Probably coined as an abbreviation of ‘serotonin triphosphate’ and as an allusion to the trademark name⟳ of a motor oil additive, and later deabbreviated to ‘serenity, tranquillity and peace’.”

“Eddy had sent two messages, and at the end⟳ of the second the service de-abbreviated his LOL. ‘P.S. Chateaubriand pls,’ the computer voice said. ‘Laughing Out Loud.’”

“I was asked to “deabbreviate the following,” which I did not understand⟳ until they pointed out the acronyms listed on the sheet below.”

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