förkortning — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abbreviation noun A shortened form of a word or phrase, standing in for the full version.
- cancellation noun The act of calling something off or making it void.
- short adjective Not long in length, distance, or duration.
Senses
förkortning 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.
- cancellation The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
- short (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- shortening the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
cancellation — full definition
- noun The act of calling something off or making it void.
- noun A mark stamped on a postage stamp to show it has already been used.