abbreviation

lyhentäminen

lyhennys, lyhenne, lyhennös The result of shortening or reduce reducing; abridgment. (defdate)(R:SOED5)
puhekieltä 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, +, =, @. (defdate)
The process of abbreviating. (defdate)
puhekieltä A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
puhekieltä 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. Trumans comittee on Civil Rights'''