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For abbreviations in Wiktionary, seeCategory:Abbreviations by language

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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First attested 1400–50. FromMiddle Englishabbreviacioun, fromMiddle Frenchabreviation, fromEcclesiastical Latinabbreviātiō, fromLatinad +breviō(“shorten”), frombrevis(“short”). Bysurface analysis,abbreviate +‎-ion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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abbreviation (countable anduncountable,pluralabbreviations)

  1. The result of shortening orreducing;abridgment.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
  2. (linguistics) Ashortened orcontracted form of a word or phrase used torepresent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.[Late 16th century.][1](The addition ofquotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
    Hants is anabbreviation of Hampshire.
    • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed militaryabbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
  3. The process of abbreviating.[Mid 16th century.][1]
  4. (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  5. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note,dividing itrespectively intoquavers,semiquavers,demisemiquavers, orhemidemisemiquavers.
  6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
    • 1946-1947, Harry S. Truman,President Truman's committee on Civil Rights:
      The phrase "civil rights" is anabbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
  7. (biology) Loss duringevolution of the final stages of the ancestralontogenetic pattern.
  8. (mathematics)Reduction to lowerterms, as afraction.

Usage notes

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  • In the linguistic sense, typically used in the phrase "abbreviationof" or "abbreviationfor", rather than "abbreviation from".

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Hyponyms

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  • (linguistics):acronym(employing initial letters or syllables);clipping(omitting several letters);initialism(employing initial letters);symbol,sign(employing marks other than letters)

Derived terms

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Translations

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shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase
abridged version of a document
act or result of shortening or reducing
music: a notation used in music score to denote a direction
music: one or more dashes through the stem of a note
mathematics: reduction to lower terms
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References

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  1. ↑1.01.11.2Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbreviation”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 3.

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