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Abbreviation

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis 'short') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing full stop (period). For example, the term etc. is the usual abbreviation for the Latin phrase…

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related to German · 38
Abbreviation → Along, Büro, Criminal Investigation Department, English, Feldherr, Geheime Staatspolizei, German, German Democratic Republic, Gestapo, Great War, Gröfaz, Hitler, Kriminalpolizei, KriPo, KriPos, National Socialist German Workers, Non, Ordnungspolizei, OrPo, Party
related to English · 35
Abbreviation → Additionally, American, California, Canal Street, CenCal, Central California, Communications, Denver, English, Hollywood, Houston Street, LoDo, Los Angeles, Lower Downtown, Market, New York City, NorCal, Northern California, Ofcom, Office
related to Russian · 29
Abbreviation → Belarus, Belarus Satellite, Belarus Telecommunication, Belarusian, Belsat, Beltelecom, Comintern, Communist, Communist International, Education, Historically, In, Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodyozhi, Komsomol, Leninist, Likbez, Ministerstvo, Ministry, Minobrnauki, Rosselkhozbank
related to Malay and Indonesian · 26
Abbreviation → Another, For, Gas Bumi Negara, Health, In Southeast Asian, Indonesia, Indonesian, Indonesian Kemenkes, Kemenhub, Kementerian Kesehatan, Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, Kementerian Perhubungan, KKM, Malay, Malaysian, Malaysian Malay, Ministry, National Petroleum, Natural Gas Mining Company, Pertamina
related to Chinese and Japanese kanji · 20
Abbreviation → Běidà, Běijīng Dàxué, Chinese, East Asian, For, Gung, Hongdae, Hongik Daehakgyo, Hongik University, Japanese, Korean, Peking University, Such, The, The English, Tokyo, Tōdai, Tōkyō, United Nations, University
related to Plural · 17
Abbreviation → Also, American Psychological Association, And, But, DVDs, For, However, Kate Turabian, Modern Language Association, PC's, Ph, Sometimes, The New York Times, There, TV's, URLs, VCR's
related to Spanish · 17
Abbreviation → Banamex, Cinemas, Cinemex, El Banco Nacional, Financimiento Forestal, Fonafifo, Fondo Nacional, Mexican Petroleums, México, National Forestry Financing Fund, Operadora, Pemex, Petróleos Mexicanos, Spanish, Syllabic, TELMEX, Teléfonos
related to Albanian · 13
Abbreviation → Albanian, Aleksander Stavre Drenova, Arbanon, ASDRENI, Gegeria, Gegë, GETOAR, In Albanian, Migjeni, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Other, Tosks, Toskë
related to history · 13
Abbreviation → Aulus, Aurelius, COS, COSS, For, Greek, However, In, In Roman, Many, Reduction, Roman, Words
related to Types · 12
Abbreviation → An, BBC, English, Examples, FBI, For, I'm, IBM, NASA, SWAT, USA, When

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instantinstance ofThis was due largely to increasing popularity of textual communication services0.80text
text messaginginstance ofThis was due largely to increasing popularity of textual communication services0.80text
St Louis or St Paulinstance ofbut not in city names0.80text
Ofcominstance ofSome UK government agencies0.80text
Stasi for Staatssicherheitinstance ofbut also a repudiation of earlier turns of phrase in favour of neologisms0.80text
the Cominterninstance ofis another example.Leninist organisations0.80text
Pemex for Petróleos Mexicanosinstance ofexamples abound in organization names0.80text
Abbreviationmeasured byWriters0.60section
Abbreviationmeasured bySuch0.60section
Abbreviationmeasured byIn0.60section
Abbreviationmeasured byInternational System0.60section
Abbreviationmeasured byUnits0.60section

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