Verkürzung — meaning in English

English meaning

abridgment noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
clipping noun A small piece cut from something larger, especially an article cut from a newspaper.

Verkürzung is used for these senses in English:

abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
clipping (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
curtailment The act of curtailing.
foreshortening (arts) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
shortening the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
noun The condition of having been made shorter or reduced.
noun A shortened version of a book or other piece of writing.
noun Something that cuts time short, such as an amusement that makes the time seem to fly by.

noun A small piece cut from something larger, especially an article cut from a newspaper.
noun A method of forming new words by shortening a longer word.
noun In audio or video, the distortion caused when a signal exceeds a device's maximum level.