An abbreviation is a short form of a word or phrase, made by leaving out some of the letters or by using only the first letter of each word.
例句
The postal abbreviation for Kansas is KS.堪薩斯州的郵政縮寫(xiě)是KS。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
縮寫(xiě); 縮寫(xiě)詞
A.D. is the abbreviation for “advertisement”.A.D.是advertisement的縮寫(xiě)。Each Reader's Digest condensed book is an abbreviation of an originally longer work.《讀者文摘》都是較長(zhǎng)原著的縮寫(xiě)本。