English-Thai Dictionary

abbreviation

N การย่อ  การ ตัดทอน  shortening brief kan-yor

 

abbreviation

N อักษรย่อ  คำย่อ  ตัวย่อ  ชื่อย่อ  acronym initialism ak-son-yor

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABBREVIATION

n. 1. The act of shortening or contracting.
2. A letter or a few letters used for a word; as Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
3. The reduction of fractions to the lowest terms.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ABBREVIATION

Ab *bre `vi *a "tion, n. Etym: [LL. abbreviatio: cf. F. abbréviation.]

 

1. The act of shortening, or reducing.

 

2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor.

 

3. 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.

 

4. (Mus. )

 

Defn: One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

abbreviation

ab bre vi a tion |əˌbrēvēˈāSHən əˌbriviˈeɪʃən |(abbr.: abbr. ) ▶noun a shortened form of a word or phrase. • the process or result of abbreviating.

 

Oxford Dictionary

abbreviation

ab ¦bre ¦vi |ation |əbriːvɪˈeɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun a shortened form of a word or phrase. • [ mass noun ] the process of abbreviating something.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

abbreviation

abbreviation noun 1 the abbreviation for 'teaspoon' is 'tsp. ' or just 't.': shortened form, short form, contraction, acronym, initialism, symbol, diminutive; elision. ANTONYMS full form. 2 'Desi Arnaz' was an abbreviation of the bandleader's full name, 'Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III': shortening, reduction, cutting, contraction, condensation, abridgment, truncation, cropping, paring down. ANTONYMS expansion.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

abbreviation

abbreviation noun 1 the abbreviation ‘mAh ’ stands for milliamp hours: shortened form, short form, contraction, elision, acronym, initialism, symbol, diminutive. ANTONYMS full form. 2 she felt a slight irritation at the abbreviation of her name: shortening, reduction, cutting, cutting short /down, contraction, condensation, compression, abridgement, truncation, clipping, cropping, paring down, pruning, shrinking, constricting, telescoping. ANTONYMS expansion.

 

Duden Dictionary

Abbreviation

Ab bre vi a ti on Substantiv, feminin , die |Abbreviati o n |lateinisch Abbreviatur

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

abbreviation

ab bre vi a tion /əbrìːviéɪʃ (ə )n /名詞 C «…の » 略語 «for , of » ; U C 省略 [短縮 ](形 ) 〘VIP (＝v ery i mportant p erson )など; →acronym 〙.