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abbreviation
/əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
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What does abbreviation mean?
noun
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- 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 +, =, @.
- The process of abbreviating.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
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As she was rather small, the abbreviation with a diminutive termination was considered more appropriate, hence Oesedah became her common name.
Father Kelly, the priest, had found the name of the Spanish maker on the sword and an abbreviation that stood for the city of Cordova.
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It was now, for the first time, that the letters O.P. came into general use as an abbreviation of the accustomed watchword of old prices.
Fen Dubs, an abbreviation of "defend doubles," is shouted by an opponent before the play, and means that you must put back all but one marble.
This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent.