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Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:
Medieval manuscripts abound in abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand.The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in order to save time and parchment.
This following list features abbreviated names of mathematical functions, function-like operators and other mathematical terminology. This list is limited to abbreviations of two or more letters (excluding number sets).
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
FR – Fireman Recruit [1] FRC – Fleet Readiness Center; FRS – Fleet Replacement Squadron ... (HS-4 Black Knights) HT – Hull Maintenance Technician [1] I
Example of 15th-century Latin manuscript text with scribal abbreviations. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis.
Used before a chapter number of laws of the United Kingdom [4] and its former colonies. Example: "Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553)." cf. confer "bring together" and hence "compare" Confer is an imperative form of the Latin verb conferre. [3]
AC 0/4: Grade 0 anterior chamber angle: closed angle between cornea and iris AC/A: Accommodative convergence / Accommodation ratio