Abbreviation vs. Former

Abbreviationnoun

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

Abbreviationnoun

(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 +, =, @.

Abbreviationnoun

The process of abbreviating.

Abbreviationnoun

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

Abbreviationnoun

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

Abbreviationnoun

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

Abbreviationnoun

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

Abbreviationnoun

(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.

Abbreviationnoun

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

Abbreviationnoun

a shortened form of a word or phrase

Abbreviationnoun

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.

Formeradjective

Previous.

Formeradjective

First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

Formernoun

Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.

Formernoun

An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.

Formernoun

Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).

Formernoun

One who forms; a maker; a creator.

Formernoun

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

Formeradjective

Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

Formeradjective

Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.

Formeradjective

Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.

Formernoun

the first of two or the first mentioned of two;

Formeradjective

referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several);

Formeradjective

belonging to some prior time;

Formeradjective

(used especially of persons) of the immediate past;

Formeradjective

of the distant past;

Former

A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature.