Abbreviate

• abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
• shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
• An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word "abbreviation" can itself be represented by the abbreviation "abbr." or "abbrev."
• An abridgment; To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by means of contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken; To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction; Abbreviated; abridged; shortened; Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type