Abbreviation vs Airborne - What's the difference?
abbreviation | airborne |
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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In or carried by the air.
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In flight.
fitted to an aircraft; e.g. airborne radar.
transported by air in an aircraft; e.g. airborne troops.
Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and airborne
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while airborne is military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.As an adjective airborne is
in or carried by the air.abbreviation
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(wikipedia abbreviation)Alternative forms
*Noun
(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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airborne
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Adjective
(-)- Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
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