ABBREVIATION

ABBREVIA'TION, noun 1. The act of shortening or contracting.2. A letter or a few letters used for a word; as Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.3. The reduction of fractions to the lowest terms.

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abbreviation. Abbreviation, n. the act or art of shortening

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Ab‐bre′vi‐a″tion (�), n. [[LL. abbreviatio: cf. F. abbréviation.]] 1. 1. The act of shortening, or reducing.
2. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor.
3. 3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
4. 4. (Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.