English Dictionary

abbreviate

/ə.ˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/

verb

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

He decided to abbreviate the word 'abbreviation' to 'abbrev.'

意味（1）

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.

It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.

意味（2）

(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

意味（3）

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.

But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient. Now, companies also need smaller distribution centres around the country, to respond rapidly to orders and to abbreviate the last mile as much as possible.

意味（4）

(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.

bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.

意味（5）

(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.