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Abbreviation vs Microelectronics - What's the difference?

abbreviation | microelectronics |

As nouns the difference between abbreviation and microelectronics

is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while microelectronics is the study, science, subject, or manufacture of microelectronic devices.

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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    microelectronics

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    Noun

    (-); (p)
  • The study, science, subject, or manufacture of microelectronic devices.
  • Microelectronic devices as a non-specific mass.
  • English plurals