abbreviation (n.)

• abridgment
• abstract
• apocope
• aposiopesis
• astringency
• bottleneck
• bowdlerization
• brief
• cancellation
• capsule
• censoring
• censorship
• cervix
• circumscription
• clipping
• coarctation
• compaction
• compression
• concentration
• condensation
• consolidation
• conspectus
• constriction
• contraction
• contracture
• curtailment
• cutting
• decrease
• deletion
• digest
• diminuendo
• draft
• editing
• elision
• ellipsis
• epitome
• erasure
• expurgation
• head
• hourglass
• isthmus
• knitting
• narrowing
• neck
• omission
• outline
• overview
• precis
• pruning
• recap
• recapitulation
• reduction
• retrenchment
• review
• rubric
• shortening
• skeleton
• sketch
• solidification
• strangulation
• striction
• stricture
• striking
• summary
• summation
• survey
• syllabus
• syncope
• syneresis
• synopsis
• systole
• truncation