More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

An alkyl group, generally abbreviated with the symbol R, is a functional group or side-chain that, like an alkane, consists solely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms, for example a methyl or ethyl group.

Basic theories, such as arithmetic, real analysis and complex analysis are often introduced non-axiomatically, but implicitly or explicitly there is generally an assumption that the axioms being used are the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory with choice, abbreviated ZFC, or some very similar system of axiomatic set theory like Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, a conservative extension of ZFC.

A period ( full stop ) is sometimes written after an abbreviated word, but there are exceptions and a general lack of consensus about when this should happen.

It is sometimes abbreviated AH.

An astronomical unit ( abbreviated as AU, au, a. u., or ua ) is a unit of length equal to exactly or approximately the mean Earth – Sun distance.

An ampicillin resistance gene ( abbreviated ampR ) is commonly used as a selectable marker in routine biotechnology.

In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:

A fourth theory is that the longer Western text came first, but that later, some other redact or abbreviated some of the material, resulting in the shorter Alexandrian text.

The accusative case ( abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

To express even smaller angles, standard SI prefixes can be employed ; in particular, the milliarcsecond, abbreviated mas, is used in astronomy.

It is also abbreviated as arcmin or amin or, less commonly, the prime with a circumflex over it ().

It is also abbreviated as arcsec or asec.

Non-real-time is sometimes abbreviated to vbr-nrt.

Accrington is commonly abbreviated by locals to " Accy ".

* K — Strike out ( also abbreviated SO ): number of times that a third strike is taken or swung at and missed, or bunted foul.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

A bactericide or bacteriocide, sometimes abbreviated Bcidal, is a substance that kills bacteria and, ideally, nothing else.

In molecular biology and genetics, the linking between two nitrogenous bases on opposite complementary DNA or certain types of RNA strands that are connected via hydrogen bonds is called a base pair ( often abbreviated bp ).

** Docklands Light Railway: normally abbreviated DLR, this is the automatically driven light rail network in east London, although actual operation and maintenance is undertaken by a private sector franchisee.

Rose – Hulman Institute of Technology ( abbreviated RHIT ), formerly Rose Polytechnic Institute, is a small private college specializing in teaching engineering, mathematics and science.

A private investigator ( often abbreviated to PI and informally spelled private eye ), private detective or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

The Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas () ( Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, abbreviated as PUC-Campinas or PUCC ) is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Campinas, the second largest city of the State of São Paulo.

The word ' dishwasher ' ( or abbreviated as simply " dish ") may also refer to a person who washes dishes in a restaurant, hotel or other private or commercial entities.

Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send spam messages.

" Three Rivers " As it is abbreviated by locals, was the brainchild of two local teachers, one of whom had originally been teaching a small private school by the name of Thomas More Preparatory School.

Union Catholic Regional High School ( often abbreviated UC ), a private Roman Catholic school, brings in students from Union County and parts of Essex and Middlesex counties and operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The man-in-the-middle attack ( often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, also known as a bucket brigade attack, or sometimes Janus attack ) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.

A cavalry soldier of private rank is called a trooper ( abbreviated Tpr., not to be confused with trouper ).

The Rhaetian Railway (,,, abbreviated RhB ) is a Swiss transport company, owning the largest network of all the private railways in Switzerland.

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school ( also known as tertiary preparation and usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, tertiary prep, or prep school ) is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education.

The University of Dayton ( abbreviated and commonly referred to as UD ) is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ( abbreviated to CALS or Ag School ) is a statutory college at Cornell University, a private university located in Ithaca, New York.

There are a few low-rate student dorms in the town, however a large majority of students share private flats with a couple of other students ( German: Wohngemeinschaft, abbreviated WG ), or live in single apartments.

Cincinnati Country Day School ( abbreviated " Country Day or CCDS ") is a private, Independent School located in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

Home insurance, also commonly called hazard insurance or homeowner's insurance ( often abbreviated in the real estate industry as HOI ), is the type of property insurance that covers private homes.

The day of her funeral, May 9, all public and private schools closed, all state offices closed, and most businesses closed or had abbreviated hours.

The Ibero-American University ( in Spanish: Universidad Iberoamericana, abbreviated UIA but commonly known as Ibero ) is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus.

, occasionally abbreviated as Nose Railway or, is a Japanese private railway company headquartered in Kawanishi, which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka, area to Kawanishi-noseguchi Station in Kawanishi, Hyōgo, where one can transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line to Osaka.

Takushoku University ( 拓殖 大学 ; Takushoku Daigaku, abbreviated as 拓大 Takudai ) is a private university in Japan.

Tatung University ( often abbreviated TTU ) ( 大同大學 ) is a private university in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, with close cooperation with the Tatung Company ; and not to be confused with Tatung Institute of Commerce and Technology.