abbreviated

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Quick take

(of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"

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adjective

(of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"

adjective

cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for abbreviated.

adjective

(of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"

adjective

cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

Example sentences

Side note: Title abbreviated slightly to fit the 80-char limit.

I agreed, and after an abbreviated version of the phone interview process, went to Mountain View for another on-site. Soon after, I was hired!

With that said, one of the things I still prefer about Khan's lectures, even abbreviated ones like these stated, is that I can pause them at any time, and look up the Japanese oil embargo. And start right back up where I left off in the video.

The story was abbreviated: I talked to several people to figure out what was going on before they insisted we were blocking the entrance. By then she had decided it was not worth the trouble and wanted to leave.

It's merely an abbreviated use of "mankind," which is an abbreviated use of "humankind." I'm sorry if you're upset by this wording, but it's not inappropriate.

I'm fairly certain that those abbreviated bullet points were extrapolated on when the presentation was given live.

I'm not sure that the abbreviated sentiment that medication has little more effect than a placebo is useful in the realm of mental disorders. Depression/anxiety/ocd are very complex because they deal with the brain/mind, which is poorly understood.

So I outlined the steps it would take to translate a toy language into a toy computer's instruction set, and reviewed it with the young man one afternoon at my office - an abbreviated compiler theory class with an eager audience of one. Tom took the big flowchart that we made home, studying and meticulously documenting it.