0 to shorten (a word, phrase etc) -- forkorte
‘Frederick’ is often abbreviated to ‘Fred’.
It can't be paraphrased or abbreviated: one wants it all.
Independent variables in regressions models are abbreviated as follows: clay (clay content), trees (number of trees) and litter (volume of litter).
The description may be abbreviated when well-accepted techniques are used with appropriate reference to previously published methods.
In that case, the abbreviations and the words they were assumed to abbreviate are added to the abbreviation lexicon.
So, the two rules above are often abbreviated by the formula edge ko(0, 1).
Asymptotically almost surely (abbreviated to a. a. s.) denotes that an event occurs with probability 1 - o(1).
The description here is abbreviated, focussing on the main conceptual points.
Each entry then continues with a comprehensive bibliography of the object, abbreviated and in chronological order.
