Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shorthand"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shorthand \Short"hand`\, n.
A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting
characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under
{Phonography}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shorthand
adj : written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
n : a method of writing rapidly [syn: {stenography}]
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