Abbreviation vs. Something

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.

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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.

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.

Somethingpronoun

An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.

Somethingpronoun

A quality to a moderate degree.

Somethingpronoun

A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.

Somethingpronoun

Somebody or something who is superlative in some way.

Somethingadjective

Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.

Somethingadverb

(degree) Somewhat; to a degree.

Somethingadverb

To a high degree.

Somethingverb

Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.

Somethingnoun

An object whose nature is yet to be defined.

Somethingnoun

An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).

Somethingnoun

Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.

Somethingnoun

A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.

Somethingnoun

A person or thing importance.

Somethingadverb

In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.

Somethingnoun

a thing of some kind;