Usually means: Shortened form of words, phrases.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word abbreviation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abbreviation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abbreviation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abbreviation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abbreviation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abbreviation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abbreviation, abbreviation: Wordnik
  7. abbreviation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abbreviation: Wiktionary
  9. abbreviation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abbreviation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abbreviation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abbreviation: Dictionary.com
  13. abbreviation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abbreviation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abbreviation (music), Abbreviation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abbreviation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abbreviation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abbreviation: Rhymezone
  19. abbreviation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abbreviation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. abbreviation: Free Dictionary
  22. abbreviation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. abbreviation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. abbreviation: Merriam-Webster.com

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abbreviation: Netlingo
  2. abbreviation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abbreviation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abbreviation: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abbreviation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abbreviation: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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