abbreviation

US: /əˌbɹiviˈeɪʃən/

UK: /ɐbɹˌiːvɪˈe‍ɪʃən/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

abbreviation /ə,bri:vi'eiʃn/
  • danh từ
    • sự tóm tắt, sự rút ngắn (cuộc đi thăm...)
    • bài tóm tắt
    • chữ viết tắt
      • Jan is the abbreviation January: Jan là chữ viết tắt của January
    • (toán học) sự ước lược, sự rút gọn

Advanced English dictionary

+ noun
1 [C] ~ (of / for sth) a short form of a word, etc: What's the abbreviation for 'Saint'?
2 [U] the process of abbreviating sth

Thesaurus dictionary

n.
initialism; acronym; shortening, contraction:
UK is one kind of abbreviation, or initialism; NATO, which is pronounced as a word, is another, usually called an acronym.

Collocation

ADJ.

common, standard

ABBREVIATION + VERB

stand for
The abbreviation PC stands for ‘personal computer’.

PREP.

~ for
A/C is the standard abbreviation for ‘account’.
| ~ of
Ad lib is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ‘ad libitum’.


Concise dictionary

abbreviationsə‚briːvɪ'eɪʃn
noun
+a shortened form of a word or phrase
+shortening something by omitting parts of it

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