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Definition of Abbreviation

1. Noun. A shortened form of a word or phrase.

Definition of Abbreviation

1. n. The act of shortening, or reducing.

Definition of Abbreviation

1. Noun. A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: ''Dr''. ¹

2. Noun. The act or result of shortening or reducing. ¹

3. Noun. (context: music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers. ¹

4. Noun. (context: music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf. ¹

5. Noun. Any convenient spoken or written short form for an understood or inferred whole. ¹

6. Noun. (context: mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction. ¹

7. Noun. (context: biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abbreviation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbreviation

Literary usage of Abbreviation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by School of Mines and Metallurgy, University of Missouri (1920)
"Abbreviation 1. Never use an abbreviation that would be unintelligible to the average ... CTU But no abbreviation whose meaning is not clear at a glance is ..."

2. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"LC An abbreviation which may stand either for "Lord Chancellor," "Lower ... The reduplicated form of the abbreviation "L." for "law," used as a plural. ..."

3. Handbook for Newspaper Workers, Treating Grammar, Punctuation, English by Grant Milnor Hyde (1921)
"Abbreviation Abbreviation in newspapers is largely a matter of arbitrary rule. Some newspapers generally avoid abbreviation, while others do not. a. ..."

4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"Abbreviation and Contraction of the Dependent with the Principal ... We make no further mention in this place of the abbreviation of dependent sentences ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"C. The conventional abbreviation for Centigrade. Written also Cent. See "symbols. ... Cm. Abbreviation of centimeter. Cacodyl. A methyl arsenic compound, ..."

6. Modern Punctuation: Its Utilities and Conventions by George Summey (1919)
"Abbreviation AND ETYMOLOGICAL POINTING The marks included here are those, except the dash ... Under these limitations, the marks used for abbreviation and ..."

7. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"Spelling Out and Abbreviation 130. Abbreviation should be as far as possible avoided in ... In footnotes the abbreviation of titles, publishers' names, ..."

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