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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)

  3. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.

  4. Lists of abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Lists of abbreviations in the English language: Athletics abbreviations; List of business and finance abbreviations; List of computing and IT abbreviations; List of ecclesiastical abbreviations; List of energy abbreviations; List of abbreviations in photography; List of glossing abbreviations (grammatical terms used in linguistic interlinear ...

  5. 35 Text Abbreviations You Should Know (and How to Use Them) - AOL

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    The post 35 Text Abbreviations You Should Know (and How to Use Them) appeared first on Reader's Digest. Knowing the meaning of these terms will keep anyone with a phone, social media, or even just ...

  6. Superior letter - Wikipedia

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    In typography and handwriting, a superior letter is a lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than an ordinary script. The style has traditionally been distinct from superscript. [how?] Formerly quite common in abbreviations, the original purpose was to make handwritten abbreviations clearly distinct from normal words ...

  7. Unicode alias names and abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    1. Abbreviation Commonly occurring abbreviations (or acronyms) for control codes, format characters, spaces, and variation selectors. There are 354 such aliases, including 256 aliases for variant selectors (VS-1 ... VS-256). For example, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE has alias NBSP. Presentation: in the code charts, the abbreviation is shown in a ...

  8. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is an abbreviation formed by replacing letters with an apostrophe. Examples include I'm for I am and li'l for little.. An initialism or acronym is an abbreviation consisting of the initial letter of a sequence of words without other punctuation.

  9. Universal Coded Character Set - Wikipedia

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    The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented writing systems are added.