Abbreviation

Noun

 * 1) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: Dr.
 * 2) The act or result of shortening or reducing.
 * 3)  One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers.
 * 4)  Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Adjectives for Abbreviation
offensive; delicate; apt; cryptic; unintelligible; suggestive; recognizable; remote; felicitous.

Synonyms for Abbreviation
abridgment, contraction, abstraction, shortening, curtailment.

Antonyms for Abbreviation
enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, augmentation.

Thesaurus
abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, astriction, astringency, blue-penciling, bottleneck, bowdlerization, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, cervix, circumscription, clipping, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compend, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, condensed version, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crasis, curtailment, cutting, decrease, deletion, digest, diminuendo, draft, editing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, erasure, expurgation, foreshortening, head, hourglass, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, omission, outline, overview, pandect, precis, pruning, puckering, pursing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, review, rubric, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, striking, summary, summation, survey, syllabus, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, systole, telescoping, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling

Alternative forms

 * abbr., abbrv., abbrev.

Etymology
Established 1400–50. From late abbreviacioun, from  abréviation, from  abbreviatio:, from ab: + abbrevio:.

Translations

 * Arabic: اختصار
 * Azeri:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ; 簡寫, 简写; , 略语
 * Crimean Tatar: qısqartma
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:, βραχυγραφία
 * Hebrew: ראשי תיבות (rashei teivot)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Irish: giorrúchán 1
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: abreviere, prescurtare, abreviație
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: скраћеница
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: kratica, okrajšava
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: chữ viết tắt, từ viết tắt
 * West Frisian:


 * Greek: σύνοψη
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Vietnamese: bài tóm tắt


 * Bulgarian: съкращаване, скъсяване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek: σύντμηση
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ciorrú


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:, abreviação
 * Russian: сокрaщение, урезание
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, förkortande (the act of...)
 * Vietnamese: (sự) tóm tắt, sự rút ngắn


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:


 * Irish: nod ( 1) giorrúcháin
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian: съкращаване
 * Czech: krácení
 * Polish: redukcja, skracanie


 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: (sự) ước lược, sự rút gọn


 * : singkatan
 * : abbreviation (3)
 * : 약어 (略語) (yakeo)
 * : abreviatione
 * : skratka (2, 3)
 * : talfyriad