Index of English words, starting with "ab"

(1) - Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
(2) - Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
(3) - Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
(4) - Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.

(1) - Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
(2) - Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

(1) - Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

(1) - Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
(2) - Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.