0 to shorten (a word, phrase etc) -- forkorte
‘Frederick’ is often abbreviated to ‘Fred’.
Because of this restriction, a type containing type variables cannot be abbreviated in this way.
For the sake of perspicuity, abbreviated names of constraints are spelled out.
The attributes total, associative, etc. further specify the functionality, but also abbreviate appropriate clauses.
Distilling melodic motion to the most expectant and abbreviated of half cadences, the motive makes a strong impression of incompleteness and immediate demand.
The following section with tonic return is abbreviated, mm. 40-2, using, as noted, the "borrowed" closing music and text of the preceding recitative.
Frailty is associated with symptomatic long-term disease, decline in function, and abbreviated survival.
The complete structure of the case is not shown; we have abbreviated the subnetwork corresponding to the case information as jones-case-information.
Each entry then continues with a comprehensive bibliography of the object, abbreviated and in chronological order.