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.堪萨斯州的邮政缩写是KS。
英汉词典释义
n.
缩写; 缩写词
A.D. is the abbreviation for “advertisement”.A.D.是advertisement的缩写。Each Reader's Digest condensed book is an abbreviation of an originally longer work.《读者文摘》都是较长原著的缩写本。