abbreviation

Etymology
First attested 1400–50. From, from , from , from + , from. Morphologically.

Noun
, used with for or of


 * 1) The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
 * 2)  A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
 * 3) The process of abbreviating.
 * 4)  A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
 * 5)  One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
 * 6) Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
 * 7) * 1946-1947, President Truman's committee on Civil Rights
 * The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
 * 1)  Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
 * 2)  Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
 * 1)  Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: اِخْتِصَار
 * Egyptian Arabic: اختصار
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: abbreviatura
 * Belarusian: абрэвіяту́ра, скарачэ́нне, скарачэ́ньне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: berrheans
 * Crimean Tatar: qısqartma
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stytting
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აბრევიატურა, შემოკლება
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: ἀποκοπή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संक्षिप्तीकरण
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:, nod
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh: қысқарған сөз, аббревиатура
 * Khmer: ពាក្យកាត់
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin: abbreviātiō
 * Latvian: abreviatūra, saīsinājums
 * Lithuanian:, sutrumpinimas
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кратенка,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, forkorting, , , abbreviering
 * Nynorsk: forkorting, abbreviatur
 * Occitan: abreviacion
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romagnol: abreviaziôn
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: скра̑ћеница, абревија́ција, кра̀тица
 * Roman: skrȃćenica, abrevijácija,
 * Slovak: skratka
 * Slovene:, okrajšava
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: skrotconka, krotceńka
 * Upper Sorbian: skrótšenka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kifupisho
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagdadaglat
 * Telugu: సంక్షేపం
 * Thai:, คำย่อ,
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: вакчиятон
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: مُخَفَّف
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ôfkoarting


 * Afrikaans:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 요약본(要約本)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppsummering,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Vietnamese: bài tóm tắt


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zkrácení
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, lyhennös, ,
 * German:, Kürzen
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: giorrú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: abbreviātiō
 * Malay: penyingkatan
 * Maltese: abbrevjazzjoni
 * Maori: poronga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, forkorting
 * Nynorsk: forkorting,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абревија́ција, кра̀тица
 * Roman: abrevijácija,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese: (sự) tóm tắt, sự rút ngắn
 * Volapük:


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Finnish: lyhennysmerkki
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: krácení
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: (sự) ước lược, sự rút gọn


 * Burmese:
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: (3)
 * Manx:
 * Persian:
 * Slovak: (2, 3)
 * Swahili:
 * Welsh: