The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
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.
A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
The presentation of a theatrical work.
The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
The act of producing, making or creating something.
A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
The act of being produced.
Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
An extension or protrusion.
That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
The total amount produced.