Thesaurus: abbreviation

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1. n. The act of shortening, or reducing.
2. n. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
3. n. The word/form">form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
4. n. One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
5. n. a word/shortened">shortened word/form">form of a word or phrase
6. n. shortening something by omitting parts of it
7. 1. The act of word/shortening">shortening, or word/reducing">reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. 4. (Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.
8. One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing itrespectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.
9. n:100 n. a word/shortened">shortened word/form">form of a word or phrase n. shortening something by omitting parts of it