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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abbreviated}; p. pr & vb n. {Abbreviating}.] [L. abbreviatus p. p. of abbreviare ad + breviare to shorten, fr brevis short. See {Abridge}.] 1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off --Bacon. 2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\, a. Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abbreviated adj 1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini" [syn: {brief}] 2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: {shortened}, {truncated}]
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