съкращаване — meaning in English

English meaning

• abbreviation noun A shortened form of a word or phrase, standing in for the full version.
• abridgment noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
• elimination noun The act of completely getting rid of something or removing someone from a competition.
• reduction noun The act of making something smaller, or the amount by which it has been decreased.
• truncation noun The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).

Senses

съкращаване is used for these senses in English:

• abbreviation (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]
• abbreviation (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
• abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
• elimination (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
• reduction The act, process, or result of reducing.
• shortening the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
• truncation (linguistics) The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).

abridgment — full definition

1. noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
2. noun The state of being abridged or lessened.
3. noun An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
4. noun That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly

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