Apocope vs Abbreviation - What's the difference?
apocope | abbreviation |
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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As a verb apocope
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the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment .apocope
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(wikipedia)Coordinate terms
* aphaeresis (omission of a sound to the beginning of a word) * paragoge (addition of a sound to the end of a word) * syncope (omission of a sound from the middle of a word) ----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