Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Abbreviated"
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) 1.7 (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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