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Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (n.) An abridgment.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviating :: Abbreviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) 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..

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

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..