ABBREVIATION
- ABBREVIATE, to shorten (to make or become shorter) [n ABBREVIATIONS]
- shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor,U.S. for United States,lb. for pound
- act of abbreviating; state or result of being abbreviated; reduction in length, duration, etc.; abridgment
- the act or result of abbreviating [n -S]