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Abbreviation vs Rr - What's the difference?

abbreviation | rr |

As nouns the difference between abbreviation and rr

is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while rr is railroad.

As a proper noun rr is

roraima, a state of brazil.

As an abbreviation rr is

(aviation|travel|dated) (from the status code used in the gds) reconfirm / reconfirmed.

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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    rr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • railroad
  • (cycling) road race
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Roraima, a state of Brazil.
  • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (en-abbr)
  • (aviation, travel, dated) (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.
  • See also

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