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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    combi or combo combination Commie Communist con confidence trick convention convict condo condominium congrats congratulations contacts contact lenses co-op cooperative corp corporation cred credibility crip cripple croc crocodile curio curiosity cuz cousin cyber cybernetic (especially in combination)

  3. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples are: cablegram (cable telegram), op art (optical art), org-man (organization man), linocut (linoleum cut). Sometimes both halves of a compound are clipped as in navicert ( navi gation cert ificate).

  4. Combo box - Wikipedia

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    A generic combo box. A combo box is a commonly used graphical user interface widget (or control). Traditionally, it is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and a single-line editable textbox, allowing the user to either type a value directly or select a value from the list. The term "combo box" is sometimes used to mean "drop-down list ...

  5. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    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. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.

  6. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    For example, NPST non-past is not listed, as it is composable from N-non-+ PST past. This convention is grounded in the Leipzig Glossing Rules. [2] Some authors use a lower-case n, for example n H for 'non-human'. [16] Some sources are moving from classical lative (LAT, -L) terminology to 'directional' (DIR), with concommitant changes in the ...

  7. List of email subject abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations which are less commonly used in the subject of an English email header: AEAP, meaning As Early As Possible. ASAP, meaning As Soon As Possible. AB, meaning Action By. Used with a time indicator to inform the recipient that the sender needs a task to be completed within a certain deadline, e.g. AB+2 meaning Action ...

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    An acronym is sometimes considered to be an initialism that is pronounced as a word (e.g. NATO), as distinct from an initialism pronounced as a string of individual letters (e.g. "UN" for United Nations). In this document the term acronym includes initialisms. The term word acronym can be used to refer to acronyms which are not initialisms.

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation of § Disambiguation (or disambiguate[d]) (from the Wikipedia:Disambiguation shortcut WP:DAB). Dabify To convert (typically a redirect) into a disambiguation page. Dablink, DAB link, etc. 1. Abbreviation of "disambiguation link"; a link that leads to a § Disambiguation page. 2. To disambiguate a § Link within the text of a page. 3.