Abbreviation
Ab`bre`vi`a´tion
ABBREVIATION, practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing;
as when fieri facias is written fi. fa.
2. In writing contracts it is the better practice to make no
abbreviations; but in recognizances, and many other contracts, they are
used; as John Doe tent to prosecute, &c. Richard Roe tent to appear, &c.
when the recognizances are used, they are drawn out in extenso. See 4 Ca. &
P. 61; S.C.19E.C.L.R.268; 9 Co.48.
abbreviature,
abrege,
abstract,
apocope,
aposiopesis,
astriction,
astringency,
blue-penciling,
bottleneck,
bowdlerization,
brief,
cancellation,
capsule,
censoring,
censorship,
cervix,
circumscription,
clipping,
coarctation,
compactedness,
compaction,
compend,
compression,
compressure,
concentration,
condensation,
condensed version,
consolidation,
conspectus,
constriction,
constringency,
contraction,
contracture,
crasis,
curtailment,
cutting,
decrease,
deletion,
digest,
diminuendo,
draft,
editing,
elision,
ellipsis,
epitome,
erasure,
expurgation,
foreshortening,
head,
hourglass,
hourglass figure,
isthmus,
knitting,
narrow place,
narrowing,
neck,
omission,
outline,
overview,
pandect,
precis,
pruning,
puckering,
pursing,
recap,
recapitulation,
reduction,
retrenchment,
review,
rubric,
shortened version,
shortening,
skeleton,
sketch,
solidification,
stranglement,
strangulation,
striction,
stricture,
striking,
summary,
summation,
survey,
syllabus,
syncope,
syneresis,
synopsis,
systole,
telescoping,
thumbnail sketch,
topical outline,
truncation,
wasp waist,
wrinkling