- An
abbreviation (from
Latin brevis 'short') is a
shortened form of a word or phrase, by any
method including shortening, contraction,
initialism (which...
- and
abbreviations are used to
represent the
political divisions of the
United States for
postal addresses, data processing,
general abbreviations, and...
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Scribal abbreviations, or
sigla (singular: siglum), are
abbreviations used by
ancient and
medieval scribes writing in
various languages,
including Latin...
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discussion of
these abbreviations in the
context of drug
prescriptions and
other medical prescriptions is at List of
abbreviations used in
medical prescriptions...
- Look up
abbreviation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
abbreviation is a
shortened form of a word or a phrase.
Abbreviation may also
refer to: Abbreviation...
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unusual codes—which bear
little to no
similarity with any
conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal, and YYZ in Toronto, originated...
- statistics. In
order to
report that
information efficiently,
numerous abbreviations have
grown to be
common in the sport.
Starting in 1948 by Bert Nelson...
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Canadian provincial and
territorial postal abbreviations are used by
Canada Post in a code
system consisting of two
capital letters, to
represent the...
- This is a list of time zone
abbreviations. Time
zones are
often represented by
alphabetic abbreviations such as "EST", "WST", and "CST", but
these are...
- for the
abbreviation of
title words and
titles of publications) is an
international standard which defines a
uniform system for the
abbreviation of serial...
