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ABBREVIATION
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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)
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).
(ADE, NCI Dictionary)
