ABBREVIATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shortening something by omitting parts of it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("abbreviation" is a kind of...):

shortening (act of decreasing in length)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shortened form of a word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("abbreviation" is a kind of...):

descriptor; form; signifier; word form (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something)

Domain member usage:

appro (an informal British abbreviation of approval)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abbreviation"):

apocope (abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds)

initialism (an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately)

Derivation:

abbreviate (shorten)

Credits

Context examples:

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is often used with radiation therapy to treat a certain type of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma in males.

(OEPA, NCI Dictionary)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is often used with radiation therapy to treat a certain type of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma in females.

(OPPA, NCI Dictionary)

A Latin abbreviation for "nothing by mouth".

(Nothing by Mouth, NCI Dictionary)

Chemical abbreviation for sodium chloride (table salt).

(NaCl, NCI Dictionary)

The abbreviation m/z is used to denote the dimensionless quantity formed by dividing the mass number of an ion by its charge number.

(Mass-to-Charge Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used alone or with radiation therapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma.

(MOPP, NCI Dictionary)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat slow-growing forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

(CVP, NCI Dictionary)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat Hodgkin lymphoma in children.

(COPP-ABV, NCI Dictionary)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat breast cancer.

(AC-T, NCI Dictionary)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML).