encurtamento — meaning in English
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English meaning
- clipping noun A small piece cut from something larger, especially an article cut from a newspaper.
Senses
encurtamento is used for these senses in English:
- clipping (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
- shortening the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
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.