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Etymology

Late Latin abbreviatio: compare French abbréviation; from Latin ab, from, + brevis, short, + ending -atio indicating a verbal noun of action or process.

Noun

  1. The act of shortening, or reducing.
  2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. - w:Tylor
  3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
  4. (Music): One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers. - w:Moore

Translations

el:Συντομογραφία

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