(of a word, phrase, name or text)made shorter, especially by leaving out letters or using only the first letter of each word(指单词、短语、名字或文本)变得更短,特别是省略字母或者只使用每个单词的第一个字母
Where appropriate, abbreviated forms are used.适当的地方用缩写形式。
On the map, abbreviated forms such as USA and UK are consistently used.地图上经常使用像USA、UK这样的缩写形式。