Associations to the word «Abbreviation»
Noun
- Acronym
- Spectrometry
- Chromatography
- Ionization
- Acknowledgment
- Spectroscopy
- Fourier
- Identifier
- Fluorescence
- Botanist
- Analyzer
- Liquid
- Resonance
- Microscopy
- Glossary
- Uv
- Analog
- Assay
- Cid
- Ms
- Mt
- Pu
- Raman
- Standardization
- Initial
- Prefix
- Numeral
- Hd
- Ethyl
- Graphite
- Tomography
- Dl
- Absorption
- Spectrometer
- Plural
- Calibration
- Diode
- Detection
- Diffraction
- Bis
- Constellation
- Transform
- Scanning
- Polymerase
- Numbering
- Contraction
- Poly
- Parenthesis
- Malay
- Amplification
- Thin
- Phosphate
- Goaltender
- Instrumentation
- Rubber
- Prescription
- Cw
- Gel
- Symbol
- Ci
- Emission
- Dm
- Nucleus
- Cl
- Hydrocarbon
- Acetate
- Api
- Slang
- Electron
- Notation
- Neutron
- Suffix
- Detector
- Np
- Syriac
- Conductivity
Adjective
Wiktionary
ABBREVIATION, noun. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
ABBREVIATION, noun. (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]
ABBREVIATION, noun. The process of abbreviating. [Mid 16th century.]
ABBREVIATION, noun. (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
ABBREVIATION, noun. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
ABBREVIATION, noun. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
ABBREVIATION, noun. (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
ABBREVIATION, noun. (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
Dictionary definition
ABBREVIATION, noun. A shortened form of a word or phrase.
ABBREVIATION, noun. Shortening something by omitting parts of it.
Wise words
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is
the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color
and content according to the circumstances and time in which
it is used.