Abbreviation vs. Acrostic

Abbreviationnoun

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

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(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.

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The process of abbreviating.

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

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

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

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(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.

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(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Abbreviationnoun

The act of shortening, or reducing.

Abbreviationnoun

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviationnoun

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.

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

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a shortened form of a word or phrase

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shortening something by omitting parts of it

Abbreviation

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NPO, for nil (or nothing) per (by) os (mouth) is an abbreviated medical instruction.

Acrosticnoun

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

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A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

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A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

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A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

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Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

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a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

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verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Acrosticnoun

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος and στίχος .