abbreviate🔊

To shorten by omitting parts or details.

To speak or write in a brief manner.

To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.

To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.

(mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. +

(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

(Scotland) An abridgment.