20 Examples of Abbreviations

Abbreviations

The abbreviations they allow the construction of shorter sentences in the written language and tend to avoid the repetition of terms. For example: P. (short for "page")

It is one of the procedures that the language has to shorten expressions, the others are the use of symbols, acronym Y acronyms.

While abbreviations and symbols manage to reduce the space that certain words occupy by shortening them or representing them in a established by convention, respectively, acronyms and acronyms abbreviate phrases, that is, expressions made up of more than one word.

Procedures to abbreviate

Abbreviations can be recognized by the presence of a period after their last letter (known as an abbreviation period). There are three basic procedures to conform them:

Characteristics of abbreviations

Examples of abbreviations

Some examples of abbreviations are given below, along with the entire word or expression.

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