abs
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forAmbonese Malay.
abs
- Abbreviation ofabstract.
abs
- (informal) Theabdominalmuscles.plural ofab[First attested in the mid 20th century.][1]
- Acronym ofabsolute temperature.
- (mathematics)Initialism ofabsolute value function.
(abdominal muscles): The singularab is rarely used.
abs
- third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofab
- ^Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abs”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 2.
- B.A.'s,BAs,SBA,sab,sab.,B. A. S.,Bas,BAS,Sab.,SAB,bas,ASB,B.A.S.,BSA,B.A.s
FromProto-Italic*aps, variant of*ap (seeab). CompareAncient Greekἄψ(áps,“back again; in return”).
abs (+ablative)
- (Old Latin)Alternative form ofab
- This form is used almost exclusively with the second person singular pronoun (tē) in Old Latin up until the early Classical period as an archaicism, with Cicero hesitating betweenabs tē andā tē until the latter won out in the final years of his life. The variant most likely became obsolete at the latest by the end of the Augustan era.
abs
- inessivesingular ofab
Abbreviation ofabraços(“hugs”).
abs m pl (plural only)
- (Internetslang, text messaging)hugs
abs
- (Internetslang, text messaging)used to close aninformal message ore-mail, or as a goodbye on text messaging
- Synonym:bjs
For quotations using this term, seeCitations:abs.
abs
- plural ofab
