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How to pronounce “abbreviation”
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Pronunciation guide for abbreviation
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- Practice the English pronunciation of abbreviation with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- (linguistics) 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 +, =, @. [Late 16th century.][1] (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- The process of abbreviating. [Mid 16th century.][1]
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
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