In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Widespread use of electronic communication through mobile phones and the Internet during the 1990s allowed for a marked rise in colloquial abbreviation.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may stand for:

* Ark, an alternative abbreviation for Arkansas

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

* Acn, abbreviation for the orchid genus Acineta

* Ad, an abbreviation in organic chemistry for Adamantyl

* A. s. h, abbreviation for Alt. suicide. holiday, a Usenet newsgroup

* AI, the abbreviation for Appenzell Innerrhoden, a Swiss canton

Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for " no light perception.

" WIR " is both an abbreviation of Wirtschaftsring and the word for " we " in German, reminding participants that the economic circle is also a community.

The use of " Χ ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ ( most commonly in the abbreviation " Χmas ") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term.

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species ' names is L. In 1959, Carl Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens, which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).

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

* BN, an abbreviation for Bachelor of Nursing Degree

* in genetics, ADA is the abbreviation of Adenosine deaminase enzyme

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

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

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.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

A contraction is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not necessarily a contraction.

* Aperture priority, Av ( Aperture value ) is a common abbreviation on a camera mode dial

Burnham cites several published distances, ranging from to, where " ly " is the abbreviation for light year ..

He is also said to have stopped for water at the first and third islands, before returning to Mozambique .. Diogo Fernandes island (' Domigo Friz ') was visited by Dom Diogo Lopes de Sequeira in 1509 and the name ' Don Galopes ' ( another transcribed abbreviation ) sometimes appears for that island in some maps.

English " Sir "); pronounced ; plural: Messieurs, pronounced ; abbreviation: singular M .; plural: MM ..

For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.

Abbreviations can also be used to give a different context to the word itself, such as " PIN Number " ( wherein if the abbreviation were removed the context would be invalid ).

The lasting legacy of the denarius can be seen in the use of " d " as the abbreviation for the British penny prior to 1971.

DONG can be an abbreviation for:

( an abbreviation of ingenieur ; not to be confused with graduates of technical hogescholen, who were engineers abbreviated ing .).

His name may be an abbreviation of, " God-helps ".

GATT might be an acronym or abbreviation for:

" It may be a contraction of a larger form of which the Divine name or its abbreviation formed a part, so as to signify " God is help ," or " Help, God.

The name actually comes from Steve S. Long's reply when asked what the standard abbreviation for the Fifth Edition would be: " I don't care if you call it ' Fred ', as long as you buy it.

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 ).

* " Mon " is also used in slang, usually either as a means of address ( believed to be a replacement for the endearing term " man "), or as an abbreviation of " Come on " ( e. g. " Mon the Biffy ", a slogan used by rock band Biffy Clyro ).

Smoking PCP is known as " getting wet ", and a cigarette or joint which has been dipped in PCP may be referred to on the street as a " fry stick ," " sherm ," " leak ," " amp ," " lovely ," " KJ ( an abbreviation for ' Killer Joint ')," " toe tag ", " dipper ", " happy stick ," or " wet stick.

* On the QT, a colloquialism meaning quietly or secretly ; may be an abbreviation for " on the quiet.

The tablespoon abbreviation may be even further abbreviated to T in some cases.

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.

By way of the RIFF format, the audio-visual data contained in the " movi " chunk can be encoded or decoded by software called a codec, which is an abbreviation for ( en ) coder / decoder.

To distinguish properties of languages that can be traced to other facts about cognition from properties of languages that cannot, the abbreviation UG * can be used.

UG is the term often used by Chomsky for those aspects of the human brain which cause language to be the way it is ( i. e. are Universal Grammar in the sense used here ) but here for discussion it is used for those aspects which are furthermore specific to language ( thus UG, as Chomsky uses it, is just an abbreviation for Universal Grammar, but UG * as used here is a subset of Universal Grammar ).