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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    amphetamine (as in "amped up") [citation needed] amplifier [11] amputation or amputee [12] ampoule [12] amplify [citation needed] app application [13] arco arcology [citation needed] Argie Argentine, Argentinian Aspie Someone with Asperger syndrome auto automobile [14] automatic [15] av or avvie (also avvy) avatar

  3. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.

  4. 35 Text Abbreviations You Should Know (and How to Use Them) - AOL

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    Knowing the meaning of these terms will keep anyone with a phone, social media, or even just web access from being constantly confused in the digital world! The post 35 Text Abbreviations You ...

  5. Morse code abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Morse code abbreviations are not the same as prosigns.Morse abbreviations are composed of (normal) textual alpha-numeric character symbols with normal Morse code inter-character spacing; the character symbols in abbreviations, unlike the delineated character groups representing Morse code prosigns, are not "run together" or concatenated in the way most prosigns are formed.

  6. Numeronym - Wikipedia

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    A numeronym is a word, usually an abbreviation, composed partially or wholly of numerals.The term can be used to describe several different number-based constructs, but it most commonly refers to a contraction in which all letters between the first and last of a word are replaced with the number of omitted letters (for example, "i18n" for "internationalization"). [1]

  7. Numero sign - Wikipedia

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    The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, №, No., or no.), [1] [2] is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, the written long-form of the address "Number 29 Acacia Road" is shortened to "№ 29 Acacia Rd ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  9. Unicode alias names and abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    1. Abbreviation Commonly occurring abbreviations (or acronyms) for control codes, format characters, spaces, and variation selectors. There are 354 such aliases, including 256 aliases for variant selectors (VS-1 ... VS-256). For example, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE has alias NBSP. Presentation: in the code charts, the abbreviation is shown in a ...