Word Meaning

Meaning of "abbreviation" and the crossword clue

- Fridge or pram, for instance, save space
- Shortening
- The shortening of a word or text
- The act of shortening, or reducing.
- The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
- The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
- One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.