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..
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.
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..
Breviate :: Breviate (n.) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
Brevipennate :: Brevipennate (a.) Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu..