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Abbreviation vs Africa - What's the difference?

abbreviation | africa |

As nouns the difference between abbreviation and africa

is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while africa is african.

As an adjective africa is

african.

abbreviation

English

(wikipedia abbreviation)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
  • (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
  • The process of abbreviating.
  • (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  • (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
  • Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
    • the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
  • (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
  • (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

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    africa

    English

    (wikipedia Africa)

    Alternative forms

    * Afric

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
  • The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries:
    • The Maghreb and the Subsahara are regions of Africa with different geographies .

    Hyponyms

    (Countries of Africa) Central Africa * Central African Republic * Chad * Democratic Republic of the Congo * Republic of the Congo Eastern Africa * Burundi * Comoros * Djibouti * Eritrea * Ethiopia * Kenya * Seychelles * Rwanda * Somalia – Somaliland – Puntland * Tanzania * Uganda Northern Africa * Algeria * Ceuta * Egypt * Libya * Mauritania * Melilla * Morocco * South Sudan * Sudan * Tunisia * Western Sahara Southern Africa * Angola * Botswana * Lesotho * Madagascar * Malawi * Mauritius * Mozambique * Namibia * Reunion * Swaziland * South Africa * Zambia * Zimbabwe Western Africa * Benin * Burkina Faso * Cameroon * Cape Verde * * Equatorial Guinea * Gabon * The Gambia * Ghana * Guinea-Bissau * Liberia * Mali * Niger * Nigeria * Sao Tome and Principe * Senegal * Sierra Leone * Togo *Subsahara

    Derived terms

    * African * Afrikaans * Horn of Africa * North Africa * South Africa

    See also

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    External links

    * Africa Time Zones with current time

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