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abbreviation | abd |
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
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(academics) all but dissertation: A description of the status of a doctoral student who has completed all PhD degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.
* 2001 , John Siegfried and Wendy Stock, "So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?" The Journal of Human Resources , vol. 36, no. 2, p. 366:
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is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment .As an abbreviation abd is
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(academics) all but dissertation: a description of the status of a doctoral student who has completed all phd degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.abbreviation
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(en noun)- the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
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(Initialism) (head)- The most common reason for such episodes is that a student takes a job before completing a thesis, usually after attaining ABD (all but dissertation) status.