definition of the word abbreviate

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From Latin abbreviatus, past participle of abbreviare, formed from ad- + breviare "to shorten", from brevis short.

Infinitive
to abbreviate

Third person singular
abbreviates

Simple past
abbreviated

Past participle
abbreviated

Present participle
abbreviating

to abbreviate (third-person singular simple present abbreviates, present participle abbreviating, simple past and past participle abbreviated)

  1. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by means of contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
    • It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. — Bacon
  2. (mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.


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