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Abbreviation vs Airborne - What's the difference?

abbreviation | airborne |

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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Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
  • (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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    airborne

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    Adjective

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  • In or carried by the air.
  • Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
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  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • In flight.
  • fitted to an aircraft; e.g. airborne radar.
  • transported by air in an aircraft; e.g. airborne troops.
  • Noun

    (en-noun) (airborne forces)
  • Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.
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