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‘An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters, or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NBM, for nil (or nothing) by mouth is an abbreviated medical instruction. It may also consist of initials only, a mixture of initials and words, or words or letters representing words in another language (for example, e.g., i.e. or RSVP). '''Some types of [[abbreviation]]s are [[acronym]]s''' (which are pronounceable), '''initialisms''' (using initials only), '''or grammatical contractions or crasis'''.

An abbreviation is a shortening by any of these, or other, methods.’

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