abbreviation

abbreviation englannista suomeksi

1. lyhentäminen

2. lyhennys, lyhenne, lyhennös

0. Substantiivi

1. lyhenne

2. lyhentäminen, lyhennös, lyhennelmä, lyhennys

3. lyhennysmerkki

abbreviation englanniksi

1. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. (defdate)(R:SOED5)

2. A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. (defdate)

(ux)

3. The process of abbreviating. (defdate)

4. A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.

5. One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.

7. 1946-1947, President Truman's committee on Civil Rights

The phrase "civil rights" is an ''abbreviation'' for a whole complex of relationships.

8. Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.

9. Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.