Associations to the word «Abbreviation»
Noun
- Orchid
- Polymer
- Orthography
- Pb
- Waste
- Vapor
- Article
- Knitting
- Technical
- Transistor
- Tyrosine
- Ester
- Introduction
- Atrium
- Cellulose
- Letter
- Pollutant
- Reagent
- Designation
- Preface
- Atp
- Coating
- Accelerator
- Microwave
- Tense
- Scribe
- Cns
- Zoologist
- Amine
- Ac
- Nucleotide
- Int
- Isotope
- Acc
- Correlation
- Cc
- Cad
- Plus
- Nd
- Chloride
- Measurement
- Monitoring
- Phosphorus
- Photon
- Gas
- Laser
- Db
- Chemistry
- Fda
- Sou
- Residue
- Indicator
- Nitrogen
- Code
- Nickname
- Botany
- Chemical
- Digital
- Converter
- Logo
- Ru
- Pip
- Iata
- Mx
- Kilogram
- Acid
- Antigen
- Fol
- Adsorption
- Titus
- Oxide
- Septum
Adjective
Adverb
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
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.