abbreviation ●●●●○
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ab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tion /əˌbriːviˈeɪʃən/ noun
اختصار، کوته سازی، مخفف، تلخیص
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Advanced Persian Dictionaryکامپیوتر: اختصار، مخفف
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Synonyms & Related Wordsabbreviation[noun]Synonyms: shortening, abridgment, contraction, reduction, summary, synopsis
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English Dictionaryab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tion /əˌbriːviˈeɪʃ
ən/
noun1. [countable] a short form of a word or expression
abbreviation of/for
‘Dr’ is the written abbreviation of ‘Doctor’.
REGISTERIn everyday English, people usually say
be short for instead of
be the abbreviation of/for:
W.H.O. is short for ‘World Health Organization’.2. [uncountable] the act of abbreviating something
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Collocationsabbreviation noun ADJ. common, standard ABBREVIATION + VERB stand for The abbreviation PC stands for ‘personal computer’. PREP. ~ for A/C is the standard abbreviation for ‘account’.
~ of Ad lib is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ‘ad libitum’. [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲