abbreviation

abbreviation has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of shortening, or reducing.
• n.. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
• n.. 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.
• n.. One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
• n.. shortening something by omitting parts of it
• n.. a shortened form of a word or phrase