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The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
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(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 +, =, @.
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The process of abbreviating.
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(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
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(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
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Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
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(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
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(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.