Verkürzung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abridgment noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- clipping noun A small piece cut from something larger, especially an article cut from a newspaper.
Senses
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.
abridgment — full definition
- noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- noun The state of being abridged or lessened.
- noun An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
- noun That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
clipping — full definition
- 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.