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What is the adjective for abbreviations?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb abbreviate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

abbreviated
  1. Shortened; made briefer.
  2. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
  3. Scanty, as in clothing.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. concise, condensed, succinct, brief, compressed, compact, abridged, compendious, summary, shortened, thumbnail, synoptic, summarised, summarized, contracted, potted, cut, reduced, truncated, curtailed, clipped, abstracted, shrunk, trimmed, pruned, shorter, cropped, edited, outlined, cut short, cut down, pared down, edited down, terse, pithy, laconic, aphoristic, epigrammatic, short, apothegmatic, curt, sententious, crisp, monosyllabic, capsule, telegraphic, elliptical, short and sweet, elliptic, breviloquent … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “This is a greatly abbreviated summary of particular aspects of organ meridian function.”
abbreviate
  1. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century]
  2. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
  3. Synonyms:
      4. short, brief, concise, succinct, terse, little, pointed, rapid, hasty, hurried, quick, aphoristic, compendious, crisp, decreased, incisive, apothegmatic, clipped, compact, small, compressed, diminished, summarised, summarized, summary, condensed, ephemeral, epigrammatic, lessened, sententious, unprolonged, compendiary, curtailed, shortened, swift, truncated, contracted, decurtate, economical, precise, sparing, breviloquent, laconic, synoptic, curt, curtate, pithy, thumbnail, abbreviated, abridged … more
abbreviatory
  1. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. [Mid 19th century.]
abbreviative
  1. Tending to abbreviate; condensed.
abbreviating
  1. present participle of abbreviate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. summarising, summarizing, synopsizing, abridging, abstracting, epitomising, epitomizing, condensing, digesting, outlining, encapsulating, sketching, editing, summing up, giving a summary of, putting in a nutshell, giving a precis of, giving a synopsis of, giving an outline of, giving an abstract of, getting to the meat, bluing pencil, giving a digest of, shortening, cutting, truncating, reducing, boiling down, contracting, compressing, trimming, curtailing, recapping, cutting down, summating, recapitulating, telescoping, reprising, briefing, chopping, clipping, wrapping up, capsulizing, inventorying, minifying, capsuling, summing, snipping, compacting, shrinking … more
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