Abbreviation vs. Intermediate

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.

Intermediateadjective

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Intermediatenoun

Anything in an intermediate position.

Intermediatenoun

An intermediary.

Intermediatenoun

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Intermediateverb

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

Intermediateverb

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Intermediateadjective

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Intermediateadjective

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

Intermediateverb

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

Intermediatenoun

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Intermediatenoun

Something that is intermediate.

Intermediatenoun

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

Intermediatenoun

a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Intermediateverb

act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

Intermediateadjective

lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

Intermediateadjective

around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;

Intermediateadjective

coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

Intermediateadjective

having or suitable for a level of knowledge or skill between basic and advanced

Intermediatenoun

an intermediate thing.

Intermediatenoun

a person at an intermediate level of knowledge or skill

Intermediatenoun

a chemical compound formed by one reaction and then taking part in another, especially during synthesis

Intermediateverb

act as intermediary; mediate