'abbreviation' definitions:
Definition of 'abbreviation'
From: WordNet
noun
A shortened form of a word or phrase
noun
Shortening something by omitting parts of it
Synonyms of 'abbreviation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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