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Omit vs Abbreviation - What's the difference?

omit | abbreviation |

As a verb omit

is .

As a noun abbreviation is

the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment .

omit

English

Verb

(omitt)
  • To leave out or exclude.
  • To fail to perform.
  • (rare) To neglect or take no notice of.
  • Anagrams

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    abbreviation

    Alternative forms

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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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