Usually means: Shortened forms of words, phrases.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word abbreviations:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. abbreviations: Merriam-Webster
  2. abbreviations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abbreviations: Vocabulary.com
  4. Abbreviations, abbreviations: Wordnik
  5. abbreviations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. abbreviations: Wiktionary
  7. abbreviations: Dictionary.com
  8. abbreviations: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Abbreviations: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Abbreviations: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Abbreviations: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abbreviations: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Abbreviations: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Abbreviations: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abbreviation)

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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