Abbreviation

n. act of shortening by removing or omitting a part; shortened form of a word or words

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word "abbreviation" can itself be represented by the abbreviation "abbr." or "abbrev."
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Noun
1. a shortened form of a word or phrase
(hypernym) form, word form, signifier, descriptor
(hyponym) apocope
(derivation) abbreviate
(class) appro
2. shortening something by omitting parts of it
(hypernym) shortening

(n.)
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
  

(n.)
The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
  

(n.)
The act of shortening, or reducing.
  

(n.)
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
  

v. a.
اختصار , سنکشيپ , خلاصہ