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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.
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