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abbreviation 音標拼音: [əbr ,ivi'eʃən] n. 縮寫 縮寫 abbreviation縮寫; 縮語 ABBabbreviation縮寫 簡略 abbreviation n 1: a shortened form of a word or phrase 2: shortening something by omitting parts of itAbbreviation \ Ab* bre` vi* a" tion\, n. [ LL. abbreviatio: cf. F. abbr[' e] viation.] 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. -- Tylor. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi- semiquavers. -- Moore. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " abbreviation": 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 |
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