A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
Symploce.
One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.