An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism...
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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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Postal abbreviation can refer to: Australian postal abbreviations Canadian subnational postal abbreviations United States postal abbreviations This disambiguation...
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Abbreviations in music are of two kinds, namely, abbreviations of terms related to musical expression, and the true musical abbreviations by the help...
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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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This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published...
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Slang abbreviation is the practice of referring to an offensive word, usually by its first letter followed by the word "word". Abbreviated slang is often...
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This is a list of common Latin abbreviations. Nearly all the abbreviations below have been adopted by Modern English. However, with some exceptions (for...
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Lists of abbreviations contain abbreviations and acronyms in different languages and fields. They include Latin and English abbreviations and acronyms...
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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...
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Acronym (redirect from 3 letter abbreviation)
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, initialism...
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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...
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Binomial nomenclature (redirect from Species Latin name abbreviations)
information. In botany "Amaranthus retroflexus L." – "L." is the standard abbreviation used for "Linnaeus". "Hyacinthoides italica (L.) Rothm." – Linnaeus first...
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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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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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of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for...
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Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be...
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IATA airport code (redirect from Airport abbreviations)
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...
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Knitting abbreviations are often used for brevity in describing knitting patterns. Each knitting pattern typically provides its own abbreviations or refers...
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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...
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ISO 4 (redirect from ISO 4 abbreviation)
for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications) is an international standard which defines a uniform system for the abbreviation of serial...
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often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a...
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Christians (redirect from Xian (abbreviation))
the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish. The abbreviations Xian and Xtian (and similarly formed other parts of speech) have been...
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Below are abbreviations used in aviation, avionics, aerospace, and aeronautics. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also...
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Three-letter acronym (redirect from Three-letter abbreviation)
(TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is as the phrase suggests an abbreviation consisting of three letters. The abbreviation for TLA, TLA, has a special...
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This list of Singapore abbreviations sets out abbreviations that are commonly used in Singapore. Contents 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages in English. The list...
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Abbreviations (Hebrew: ראשי תיבות) are a common part of the Hebrew language, with many organizations, places, people and concepts known by their abbreviations...
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IDK (redirect from Idk (Abbreviation))
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. IDK is a three-letter initialism or abbreviation which may refer to: IDK (rapper), British-American rapper "IDK" (song)...
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List of acronyms: 0–9 (redirect from Abbreviations and Acronyms)
initialisms, and pseudo-blends . For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory...
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