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This is a directory of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals. For the guideline on the use of abbreviations in articles, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations .
Short for a dictionary definition. This term is commonly used on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion when referring to an article that is more similar to a dictionary article than an encyclopedia one. Usually a reason for transwikifying to Wiktionary. See also Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Diff
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number.; Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece.
Every article on Wikipedia with a title in the form "Glossary of subject terms", or similar, is such a glossary, as are the glossary sections inside some articles. These are distinct from outlines, which are titled in the form "Outline of subject" and may also include definitions, but are organized as a hierarchy and use their own style of formatting not covered in this guideline.
Wikipedia has found it both practical and efficient to use the following abbreviations in tight quarters such as citations, tables, and lists. Most should be replaced, in regular running text, by unabbreviated expansions or essentially synonymous plain English ( that is for i.e. , namely for viz. , and so on), when space permits or when the ...
It is also the Oxford dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. Win Similar to "leet", "win" expresses an ability to perform an otherwise impossible act through pure luck or practice, or an object or statement that constitutes an amusing or amazing element.
Return on investment (ROI), the financial gain after an expense.; Rate of return, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment; Tax return, a blank document or template supplied by a government for use in the reporting of tax information