What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Abbreviation vs Tmi - What's the difference?

abbreviation | tmi |

As nouns the difference between abbreviation and tmi

is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while tmi is (chemistry) trimethylindium, the most preferred metallorganic source of indium used in mocvd of compound semiconductors for opto-electronics applications.

abbreviation

English

(wikipedia abbreviation)

Alternative forms

*

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.

    • See also

    *

    References

    * * *

    tmi

    English

    (wikipedia TMI)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) trimethylindium, the most preferred metallorganic source of Indium used in MOCVD of compound semiconductors for opto-electronics applications.
  • (informal) Too much information, an expression indicating that someone has divulged too much personal information and made the listener/viewer uncomfortable.
    • He began to talk about his last trip to the underwear store. I told him, TMI!
    When Chris updated his status with "just ate entirely too much. Should make for a great bm to share with someone later," I thought it was TMI.
  • (psychology) transmarginal inhibition, an organism’s response to overwhelming stimuli.
  • (video, color correction) Temperature]], Magenta/Green levels, and [[intensity, Intensity
  • trans-Mars injection, an orbital burn (rocket firing) used to change orbit from local orbit, to a Mars transfer orbit (a Solar orbit that will intercept the planet Mars).

    • Coordinate terms

    (trans-Mars injection) * trans-lunar injection , TLI * Mars transfer orbit , MTO * lunar transfer orbit , LTO * geostationary transfer orbit , GTO * geosynchronous transfer orbit , GTO * geostationary orbit , GEO * geosynchronous orbit , GSO

    See also

    (trans-Mars injection) *

    Anagrams

    * *