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abbreviation
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Abbreviation is the process of shortening something, usually a word or phrase, or the shortened version itself. “Mr.” is the abbreviation of “mister,” NASA is the abbreviation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, etc. (hey, that's an abbreviation too).
There are different types of abbreviations. Some are followed by a period (.) to show that the word has been shortened. Acronyms, like DNA, SAT, or NATO, which are abbreviations that are formed from the first letters of a series of words, are written in all capitals. And don’t get confused: if your friend asks to give you an abbreviation of his speech, he’s not going to shorten each word; he’s just going to leave the details out.
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USAGE EXAMPLES
Mr Mathies apologised for a police tweet which referred to checks on "Nafris" - a police abbreviation for "North African offenders".
BBC(Jan 02, 2017)
He also expanded his vocabulary of Arabic slang and abbreviations.
The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016)
The director of the lab’s clinical-lab evaluation program replied that the practices sounded like “a form of PT cheating,” using an abbreviation for proficiency testing.
Wall Street Journal(Nov 16, 2016)
1n shortening something by omitting parts of it
Hyper
shortening
act of decreasing in length
2n a shortened form of a word or phrase
Hypo|Hyper
apocope
abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
descriptor, form, signifier, word form
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
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