abbreviation
Meaning of abbreviation
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- 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 +, =, @.
- The process of abbreviating.
- A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
Information about abbreviation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of abbreviation is: abbreviations.
- Languages in which abbreviation is used:
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Hyphenation of abbreviation
ab-bre-vi-a-tion
- It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
- abbreviation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
abbreviation synonyms
Meaning :
abbreviature, abridgement, abstract, compend, compression, condensation, contraction, curtailment, epitome, reduction, shortcut, summary
abbreviation antonyms
Meaning :
amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, expatiation, extension, production
Translation of abbreviation
- French: abréviation
- German: Abkürzung, Kürzel
- Italian: abbreviazione
- Portuguese: abreviatura
- Spanish: abreviatura, abreviación
Words that rhyme with abbreviation
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