Abbreviation vs Shortening - What's the difference?
abbreviation | shortening |
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.
Solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and shortening
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while shortening is solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.As a verb shortening is
present participle of lang=en.abbreviation
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(wikipedia abbreviation)Alternative forms
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(en noun)- the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights