abbrev
abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.
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Description
An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
This element occurs in 180 elements.
This element contains 29 elements.
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Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example abbrev</title> 4 <para>The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this. 6 </para> 8 </article>
The Assn. of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this.




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