abbreviation

noun

1 the abbreviation ‘mAh’ stands for milliamp hours:

shortened form, short form, contraction, elision, acronym, initialism, symbol, diminutive.

▷antonyms full form.

2 she felt a slight irritation at the abbreviation of her name:

shortening, reduction, cutting, cutting short/down, contraction, condensation, compression, abridgement, truncation, clipping, cropping, paring down, pruning, shrinking, constricting, telescoping.

▷antonyms expansion.

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