An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

The word chemist is derived from the New Latin noun chimista, an abbreviation of alchimista ( alchemist ).

Throughout much of the academic world, the term " doctor " refers to an individual who has earned a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. D. ( an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor ; or alternatively Doctor philosophiæ, D. Phil., meaning Teacher of Philosophy ), or other research doctorate such as the Doctor of Science, or Sc. D.

( an abbreviation of the Latin Scientiae Doctor ).

( an abbreviation of the Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus et Baccalaureus Chirurgiae ), Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS, BChD ( an abbreviation of the Latin Baccalaureus Chirurgiae Dentium ).

This abbreviation stands for the Dutch title doctorandus Latin for " he who should become a doctor " ( female form is " doctoranda ").

Lincos ( an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica ) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1.

* An abbreviation of the Latin tertium quid, meaning " third party " and used to denote an anti-Madison part of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811

is an abbreviation for requiescat in pace ( Latin, translates to English as: " rest in peace ")

The chemical abbreviation for sodium was first published by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in his system of atomic symbols, and is a contraction of the element's new Latin name natrium, which refers to the Egyptian natron, a natural mineral salt primarily made of hydrated sodium carbonate.

A common abbreviation in international use is a ( for Latin annus ), in English also y or yr.

The Latin word derived from the Greek amphoreus (), an abbreviation of amphiphoreus (), a compound word combining amphi-(" on both sides ", " twain ") plus phoreus (" carrier "), from pherein (" to carry "), referring to the vessel's two carrying handles on opposite sides.

The oldest British universities are typically denoted by an abbreviation of their Latin name.

More recently established universities also use Latin abbreviations, especially when they share the name of an episcopal see, in which case they sometimes use the same abbreviation that the bishop uses for his signature.

A Latin abbreviation for the University of Wales ( Cambrensis ) would be liable to confusion with the English abbreviation for Cambridge.

The modern chemical symbol for sodium, Na, is an abbreviation of that element's New Latin name natrium, which was derived from natron which refers to Wadi El Natrun or natron valley in Egypt from which natron was mined in ancient Egypt for use in burial rites.

In Chinese though, the word is directly taken from Spanish ( or perhaps even Latin ) rather than English: they say 西班牙 ( xībānyá ) for Spain and 西班牙语 ( xībānyá yǔ ), or the abbreviation 西語 ( xī yǔ ) for the Spanish language.

is an abbreviation of videlicet, which itself is a contraction from Latin of " videre licet " meaning " it is permitted to see.

The name leporid is simply an abbreviation of the family name Leporidae meaning animals resembling " lepus ", Latin for hare.

Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the ' painter's easel ', and it is normally represented as an easel.

This means that while the abbreviation of Doctor is usually written as " Dr " in most of the Commonwealth, it is usually written as " Dr ." in North America.

", the usual abbreviation for " Doctor of Philosophy " is " PhD ".

* The Reverend Doctor ( abbreviation The Rev.

*-Ing., an abbreviation for ' Doctor of Engineering ' used in some European countries, e. g. Doktor-Ingenieur

The title for MA / MFA / MD / MEd graduate students is Dottore ( abbreviation in Dott ./ Dott. ssa or Dr., meaning Doctor ).

In 1989, the fanzine expanded to cover other genre films and television series as well as Doctor Who, and the title was changed to DreamWatch Bulletin so that the popular abbreviation DWB would remain intact.

The double L in the abbreviation refers to the early practice in the University of Cambridge to teach both Canon Law and Civil Law, the double L indicating the plural, Doctor of both laws.

The Past Doctor Adventures ( sometimes known by the abbreviation PDA or PDAs ) were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

* ASA ( disambiguation ), as an abbreviation or initialism

Before the Brunei People ’ s Party electoral success, a military wing had emerged, the North Kalimantan National Army ( Malay abbreviation TNKU, Tentera Nasional Kalimantan Utara ), which saw itself as an anti-colonialist liberation party.

* Carina ( constellation ), astronomical constellation abbreviation " Car ", as standardized by the International Astronomical Union

Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

* F / Bi ( alternatively Bi / F ), common shorthand abbreviation for bisexual female in a personal advertisement

So, for residents ( knowing the local code ), a graffiti only containing the name or abbreviation of this gang is already a racist expression, reminding the offended people of their gang activities.

Chung Feng Ming Pen ( 中峰明本 1263 – 1323 ) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu ( 公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ zhī àndú, pronounced in Japanese as kōfu no antoku ), which referred to a " public record " or the " case records of a public law court " in Tang-dynasty China.

Strangely enough, besides being an abbreviation of the first names Giuseppe ( Joseph ) and Filippo ( Philip ), pippo is the Italian name of the Disney character Goofy, but it is probably used just because of its sound which is quite strange ; moreover, this name is very fast to be typed with the computer keyboard, as it involves three near keys (, and ).

In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary ( 1917 ) he named the accent " Public School Pronunciation ", but for the second edition in 1926 he wrote " In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation ( abbreviation RP ), for want of a better term.

The Ministry for State Security ( German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS ), commonly known as the Stasi () ( abbreviation, literally State Security ), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic or GDR ( informally known as East Germany ).

* Maximum operating frequency: low, medium, high, radio frequency ( RF ), microwave ( The maximum effective frequency of a transistor is denoted by the term, an abbreviation for transition frequency — the frequency of transition is the frequency at which the transistor yields unity gain )

UK ( or U. K .) is a common abbreviation for the United Kingdom ( of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ), an island country and soveign state in northwestern Europe.

An attempt to change the classification ratings such that some of the material in the " X " category would be banned and the remainder would be available under the new category " NVE " ( an abbreviation for Non-Violent Erotica ), failed in the Senate, partly due to the belief of some senators that the new categories were less restrictive than the old.

The abbreviation ID often refers to identity, identification ( the process of identifying ), or an identifier ( that is, an instance of identification ).

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency ), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues.

* Kanesuke Hara ( author abbreviation Hara, 1885 – 1962 ), a Japanese botanist and mycologist