abbreviation

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

缩写

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 +, =, @.

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略语

The process of abbreviating.

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

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.

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

Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

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