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