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Adjective
/əˈbrēvēˌātid/,
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Shortened; cut short,
  1. Shortened; cut short
    • - an abbreviated version of the earlier work
    • - we intended to run an abbreviated event
  1. (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
  2. cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
  3. (abbreviate) abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
  4. shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
  5. (abbreviation) a shortened form of a word or phrase
  6. (abbreviation) shortening something by omitting parts of it
  7. Shortened; relatively short
  8. (abbreviate) An abridgment; To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by means of contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken; To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction; Abbreviated; abridged; shortened; Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ...
  9. (abbreviation) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: Dr; The act or result of shortening or reducing; One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers; ...
  10. (ABBREVIATE) An opiate derivative of tears.
  11. (Abbreviate) Verb Shorten,reduce,condense,compress,contract.
  12. (ABBREVIATION) a shortened form of a word or title. In zoological works genus-group names cited in binomial names of species are often abbreviated to one or two letters, which should always be followed by a full stop, and not used on the first mention of a name; similarly for specific names ...
  13. (ABBREVIATION) an abridgement or contraction of a word or phrase, often consisting of initial letters, used for concision in written communication or documentation; compare ACRONYM, BREVITY CODE, PROWORD, INTERCO, CODENAME, CODEWORD, NICKNAME, CIPHER, CODE.
  14. (Abbreviation) (1) (2nd to 10th century AD) contraction, superscript, first letter plus a radical (Cicero's Tironian) used to preserve precious parchment (S.P.Q.R. ...
  15. (Abbreviation) A shortening of a word or term (e.g., in. for inch, BC for British Columbia, Mr. for Mister, CLC for Canadian Labour Congress). (See Acronym)
  16. (Abbreviation) Isishunqulelo; Isifinyezo (acronym)
  17. (Abbreviation) Unique organisation unit discriptor, two letters and six numbers.
  18. (Abbreviation) You can abbreviate nearly all commands and native functions to one or two characters.
  19. (Abbreviation) using just one word rather than a whole phrase. AUTHOR FOR WORK ("I love Melville" is briefer than "I love Melville's literary works) and WHOLE FOR PART ("I love Paris" likely does not include Paris's garbage, murderers, sewage, traffic jams, etc.).
  20. (The abbreviation) for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a branch of the United Nations (U.N.).
  21. (abbreviation) A form of oral-scribal intertexture where one text recites another but condenses or shortens the recited text. ...
  22. (abbreviation) A set of letters that are drawn from a word or from a sequence of words and that are used for brevity in place of the full word or phrase. NOTE: An abbreviation is NOT pronounced as a word, but each letter is read in sequence (e.g., NIH). Compare to acronym.
  23. (abbreviation) A shortened text string that represents a term.
  24. The following abbreviations are used in creation of textual documentation for Irish sets and two-hand dances.  No attempt has been made to create abbreviations for every name by which a pattern may be known.
  25. (Abbreviations) This information is included in Appendix A: Abbreviations, which includes all abbreviations and acronyms used in the Factbook, with their expansions.