Abbreviation synonyms

outline

The definition of an outline is the drawn edge of a shape or image.

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clipped form

A shortened form of a word, as pike (for turnpike) or fan (for fanatic)

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truncation

The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)

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augmenting (antonym)

The act of abbreviating

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cutting-down

The act of abbreviating

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initialism

An acronym or abbreviation formed from initial letters, specif., one pronounced using the letters' names rather than phonetically (Ex.: CD, DNA, FBI)

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contraction

The definition of contraction is the lengthening or shortening of a muscle fiber or a word formed by combining the sounds of two longer words.

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abridgment

An abridged written text.

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sketch

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

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prÃ©cis

An abbreviated form

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brief

(Informal) A short news story or report.

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abstract

The definition of an abstract is a summary of a written work.

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curtailment

The act of curtailing

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reduction

The act, process, or result of reducing.

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abstraction

The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]

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condensation

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed

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summary

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

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elision

Any act or instance of leaving out or omitting a part or parts

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short-form

A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.

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clipping

A news story or other item clipped from a newspaper, magazine, etc.

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abbreviated version

An abbreviated form

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reducing

The act of abbreviating

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shortening

A fat, such as butter or lard, used to make cake or pastry light or flaky.

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truncating

The act of abbreviating

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cutting

(Brit.) A passage for trains, cars, etc. cut through a hill or high ground; cut

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cutting-out

The act of abbreviating

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restriction

Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation:

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constriction

A compression

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removing

Removal

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taking-out

The act of abbreviating

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editing

An act or instance of something being edited

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censoring

An act of censorship.

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reshaping

The process by which something is reshaped.

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pruning

(Countable) Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.

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lopping off

The act of abbreviating

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paring down

The act of abbreviating

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trimming

The act of one that trims.

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retrenchment

(Military, dated) A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).

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compression

The degree to which a substance has decreased in size (in volume, length, or some other dimension) after being or while being subject to stress.

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foreshortening

(Art) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.

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telescoping

The act of extending or contracting in the manner of a telescope.

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apocope

The cutting off or dropping of the last sound or sounds of a word (Ex.: mos' for most)

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syncope

(Prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.

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enlargement (antonym)

An act of enlarging or the state of being enlarged.

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full-form (antonym)

An abbreviated form

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addition (antonym)

Any of certain analogous operations involving mathematical objects other than numbers.

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long-form (antonym)

abridgement

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extension (antonym)

(Semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

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increase (antonym)

An increasing or becoming increased

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augmentation (antonym)

(Music) a compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by multiplying the length of each note by the same number

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abrege

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aposiopesis

A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.

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compactedness

The state or quality of being compacted.

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compaction

The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

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compressure

(Archaic) compression

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constringency

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contracture

(Medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused

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precis

A concise or abridged statement or view.

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striction

The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.

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syneresis

Alternative spelling of synaeresis.

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systole

(Prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.

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acronym

A pronounceable word formed from the beginnings (letter or syllable) of other words and thus representing the phrase so formed, e.g. Benelux = the countries Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg considered as a political or economic whole.

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condensing

The act of abbreviating

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expansion (antonym)

A product of expanding:

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expanding (antonym)

The act of abbreviating

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