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Noun
/ˈbrevitē/,
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Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech,
  1. Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech

  2. Shortness of time
    • - the brevity of human life
  1. the use of brief expressions
  2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting
  3. Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005. ...
  4. The quality of being brief in duration; Succinctness; conciseness; A short piece of writing
  5. Too long or sausage terms should be avoided, because terms are expected to be easy memorable e.g  for this term: Kinetic energy, motion energy- Amandla entshukumo or do we say Amandla-ntshumo
  6. Term used to denote radio frequency is becoming saturated/degraded and briefer transmissions must follow.
  7. code (JP 1-02, NATO) - A code which provides no security but which has as its sole purpose the shortening of messages rather than the concealment of their content. See FM 101-5. Appendix F
  8. Operational code name for the British offensive in the Halfaya Pass, May 1941
  9. Minutes up to 1 hour in most cases (3-5 contacts typical)
  10. (chiefly British) See Miniature.
  11. briefness; short duration
  12. shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life; the quality of expressing much in few words; terseness: Brevity is the soul of wit.
  13. 1. Concise and exact use of words. 2. Shortness of time.
  14. Code written in C++ is very short in comparison with other languages, since the use of special characters is preferred to key words, saving some effort to the programmer (and prolonging the life of our keyboards!).