abbreviation

IPA: ʌbriviˈeɪʃʌn

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
(linguistics) 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 +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) 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.
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Examples of "abbreviation" in Sentences

The abbreviation of the degree is CSc.
The abbreviation of the university is uncertain.
The inscribing of dates was abbreviational and formulaic.
Alternatively the abbreviation could be the work of the copyist.
In case you didn't know, that abbreviation is for 'Release Candidate'.
An abbreviation is something like ‘etc.’, which is marked, if at all, with a full stop.
The airport abbreviation is MEX, and the official name is the Benito Juarez International Airport.
So it goes with abbreviations; if you want to be literal, an abbreviation is an abbreviated form of something.
In the New York Times, the preferred abbreviation is number-apostrophe-s (e.g., 90's), while in many other publications the preferred abbrevation is apostrophe-number-s (e.g., '90s).
Fiat and Alfa separately designed two analogous models, named in military terms AR 51 (the abbreviation is short for 'Autoveicoli da Ricognizione' and the number a reference to its year of introduction of 1951) both with 1900 cm3 engines.