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.
A reducing agent.
A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
Something that reduces.