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n. The act or product of shortening.

n. A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps.

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

n. One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

n. Any convenient short form used as a substitutuion for an understood or inferred whole.

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

n. Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

n. The act of shortening, or reducing.

n. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

n. 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.

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

n. The act of abbreviating, shortening, or contracting; the state of being abbreviated; abridgment.

n. A shortened or contracted form; a part used for the whole.

n. In mathematics, a reduction of fractions to the lowest terms.

n. In music, a method of notation by means of which certain repeated notes, chords, or passages are indicated without being written out in full.

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n. a shortened form of a word or phrase

n. shortening something by omitting parts of it

"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."

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