All abbreviation synonyms

noun abbreviation

• compendium — A compendium is a short but detailed collection of information, usually in a book.
• clipping — A clipping is an article, picture, or advertisement that has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
• abstraction — An abstraction is a general idea rather than one relating to a particular object, person, or situation.
• compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
• abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
• outline — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
• sketch — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
• summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
• precis — a concise summary.
• syllabus — an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
• synopsis — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
• abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
• precis — a concise summary.
• acronym — An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.
• shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
• truncation — the act or process of truncating.
• curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.