Definition of Abbreviation

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Abbreviation

The act of shortening, or reducing.

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

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.

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

Related Definitions:

Abbreviating, Abridgment, Act, An, And, Are, As, By, Contraction, Dash, Dividing, For, Form, Genesis, Into, Is, It, Letter, More, Note, Of, Omission, One, Or, Part, Phrase, Reduced, Reducing, Respectively, Result, Shortening, Standing, Stem, The, They, Through, To, United, Which, Word

Abbreviation Translations

abbreviation in Dutch is afkorting
abbreviation in Italian is abbreviamento
abbreviation in Norwegian is forkortelse
abbreviation in Portuguese is abreviatura
abbreviation in Spanish is acortamiento, abreviatura

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