Grammar. = syncopation, n. 1. Also attributive and in other combinations.

Grammar. Contraction of a word by omission of one or more syllables or letters in the middle; transferred, a word so contracted.

Shortening; curtailment, abbreviation; (Alchemy) a shortened method of preparation; a piece of writing explaining such a method. In later use Medicine…

Shortening, abridging, or cutting down.

Linguistics. The dropping of elements of a word. Obsolete. rare.

Palaeography. A form of abbreviation consisting in representing a word by its first letter or letters accompanied by the contraction-mark; also, a…

Removal of the tail or ‘tails’.

The shortening of a word, etc.; also, the resulting shortened form.