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| abbr. - abbreviation, abbreviated | abr. - abridged, abridgment |
| acad. - academic, academy | adapt. - adapter, adaptation, adapted by |
| adj. - adjective, adjourned, adjustment | adm. - administration, admiral |
| adv. - adverb | agr. / agri. / agric. - agricultural, agriculture |
| Amer. - America, American | anon. - anonymous - author unknown |
| app. - appended, appendix, appointed | approx. - approximately |
| arch. - archaic | arr. - arranged (music), arrival, arrived, arrives (travel) |
| art. - article | assn. - association |
| assoc. - associate, associated | attrib. - attributed to |
| aux. - auxiliary verb | b. - base, bass, bat, battery, bay, book, born, brother |
| bact. - bacteria, bacteriology | bap. - baptized |
| Bcc - blind carbon copy | |
| bib. - Bible, biblical | bibliog. - bibliographer, bibliography, bibliographic |
| biog. - biographer, biography, biographical | biol. - biology |
| bk. - bank, block, book | bkg. - banking |
| BL - British Library, London | bldg. - building |
| blvd. - boulevard | BM - British Museum, London (1973 transferred to BL) |
| bot. - botanical, botany | bp. - bishop |
| brig. - brigade, brigadier | brig. gen. - brigadier general |
| bro. - brother | bull. - bulletin |
| bur. - bureaus | � / copr. - copyright (e.g. � 2009) |
| c. - circa - about, to cite doubtful dates in history (e.g. c.1911) | ca. - circa - about, approximate dates used in narrative |
| c.a. - chartered accountant, chief accountant, commercial agent, consular agent, controller of accounts | cal. - calendar, caliber, small calorie |
| cap. - capital, capitalize | capt. - captain |
| cath. - cathedral | cc / cc. / c.c. - cubic centimeters. Cc - carbon copy |
| CD - compact disc | CD-ROM - compact disc read-only memory |
| cent. - centigrade, centimeter, central, century | cf. - Latin confer = compare |
| ch. - chaplain, chapter, check (chess), chief, child, children, Latin chirurgia = surgery, church | chap. - chaplain, chapter |
| chem. - chemical, chemist, chemistry | chm. - chairman, checkmate (chess) |
| chor. - choreographer, choreographed by | chron. - chronology |
| cir. / circ. - circular, Latin circa = about | cit. - citation, cited, citizen |
| civ. - civil, civilian | clk. - clerk |
| cm / cm. - centimeter(s) | co. - company, county |
| c.o. / c/o - care of, carried over | c.o.d. - cash on delivery, collect on delivery |
| col. - collected, collector, college, colonel, colonial, colony, column | coll. - college |
| colloq. - colloquial, colloquialism | com. - comedy, command, commandant, commerce, commercial, commission(er), committee, commodore, common, communication, community |
| comdr. - commander | comr. - commissioner |
| comp. - compiler, compiled by | compar. - comparative |
| con. - concerto, consolidated, consul | cond. - conductor, conducted by |
| conf. - conference | Cong. - congress |
| Cong. Rec. - Congressional Record | conj. - conjunction |
| consol. - consolidated | Const. - Constitution |
| constr. - construction | cont. - containing, contents, continent, continental, continue, continued |
| cont. / contd. - continued | corp. - corporal, corporation |
| cp. - candlepower, compare | cpl. - corporal |
| cr. - credit, creditor, creek | crit. - criticism |
| ct. - carat, cent, court | cu. - cubic |
| cwt. - hundredweight | d. - dam (pedigrees), date, daughter, day(s), dead, democrat, density, diameter, died |
| d. - pence, penny | DA, DAI - Dissertation Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International |
| DAB - Dictionary of American Biography | dec. - deceased, declaration, declension, declination, decrease, Italian deprescendo = decreasing in loudness (music) |
| def. - definition, definite | deg. - degree(s) |
| dep. - department, departure, deposit, depot, deputy | dept. - department, deputy |
| der. / deriv. - derivation, derivative | dev. - development, developed by |
| diag. - diagram | dial. - dialect |
| dict. - dictionary | dim. - Italian diminuendo = diminishing in loudness (music) |
| dipl. - diplomat, diplomatic | dir. - director, directed by |
| disc. - discount, discovered | diss. - dissertation |
| dist. - distinguished, district | distr. - distribution, distributed by |
| div. - dividend, division, divorced | dm / dm. - decameter, decimeter |
| DNB - Dictionary of National Biography | do. - Latin ditto = the same |
| doc. - document | doz. - dozen |
| dpt. - department | dr. - debit, debtor, drachma, dram |
| d.t. - delirium tremens, double time | dup. / dupl. - duplicate |
| DVD - digital videodisc | DVD-ROM - digital videodisc read-only memory |
| dwt. - pennyweight | |
| e / e. - erg, errors (Baseball) | ea. - each |
| eccl. / eccles. - ecclesiastical | ecol. - ecology |
| econ. - economic, economics, economy | ed. - editor, edited, edited by, edition eds. - editors |
| edu. - educational, (domain name extension, e.g. www.harvard.edu) | educ. - education, educational |
| e.g. - Latin exempli gratia = for example | elec. / elect. - electric, electrical, electrician, electricity |
| elev. - elevation | e-mail - electronic mail |
| emp. - emperor, empire, empress | e.m.u. - electromagnetic unit |
| enc. - enclosed | ency. / encyc. / encycl. - encyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
| eng. - engineer, engineering, engraved | enl. - enlarged (e.g. rev. and enl. ed.) |
| entom. / entomol. - entomologist, entomology | esp. - especially |
| est. - established, estimate | et al. - Latin et alibi = and elsewhere,
Latin et alii, et aliae, et alia = and others |
| et passim. - and here and there, used to cite pages scattered throughout the source indicated | et seq. - Latin et sequens = and the following, Latin et sequentes or seqentia = and those that follow, meaning the pages that follow |
| etc. - Latin et cetera = and so forth | ex. - examined, example |
| exch. - exchange, exchequer | exec. - executive, executor |
| ex lib. - Latin ex libris = from the books of | f - Italian forte = loud (music) |
| f. - farad, father, farthing, fathom, feminine, fluid (ounce), folio (size), following, franc, frequency | fac. - faculty fac. / fax - facsimile |
| facsim. - facsimile | |
| fed. - federal, federated, federation | fem. - female, feminine |
| ff - Italian fortissimo = very loud (music); ff - folios (several sheets of folio size, or pages following) | ff. / fol. - folios, following |
| fig. - figure | fin. - finance |
| fl. - florin, flourished, fluid (Latin floruit - for use before historical dates are known, e.g. fl. 300 BC) | fn. - footnote |
| fr. - fragment, franc, from | front. - frontispiece |
| ft = feet, foot; ft. - fort | fut. - future |
| fwd. - foreword, foreword by | g / g. / gm - gram |
| gal / gall. - gallon | gaz. - gazette, gazetteer |
| gen. - gender, genera, general, genus (e.g. gen. ed.) | geog. - geographer, geographical, geography |
| geol. - geologic, geologist, geology | geom. - geometric, geometry |
| gloss. - glossary | gov - government (domain name extension,
e.g. www.irs.gov) gov. - governor |
| govt. - government | GPO - Government Printing Office, Washington, DC |
| gr - grain(s), gram(s) | gram. - grammar, grammarian |
| hab. corp. - Latin habeas corpus = that you have the body | |
| H. Doc. - House of Representatives Document | her. - heraldry |
| hist. - historian, historical, history | HMSO - Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office, London |
| hort. - horticultural, horticulture | hr - hour(s), HR - House of Representatives |
| H. Rept. - House of Representatives Report | H. Res. - House of Representatives Resolution |
| ht. - height | http - hypertext transfer protocal (e.g. http://www.bydewey.com) |
| ib. / ibid. - Latin ibidem = in the same place of the work as cited immediately above | |
| id. - Latin idem = the same | i.e. - Latin id est = that is |
| illus. - illustrator, illustration, illustrated by | imp. - imperative, imperial, imports, Latin imprimatur = let it be printed |
| in. - inch, inches | in loc. cit. - Latin in loco citato = in the place cited |
| in re - in the matter of | inc. - including, income, incorporated |
| infin. - infinitive | |
| ins. - inches, insurance | inst. - instant, institute, institution |
| intl. - international | introd. - introduction, introduced by |
| ips - inches per second (e.g. tape recorder speeds: 7 1/2 ips, 15 ips, 30 ips) | irreg. - irregular |
| is. - island, isle | ISP - Internet service provider |
| jour. - journal | Jr. - Junior |
| jud. - judicial | k. - kilo, kilogram, thousand |
| KB - kilobyte | kg - kilogram (note: no period after kg) |
| kilo. - kilogram, kilometer | km - kilometer (note: no period after km) |
| kt. - carat | kw - kilowatt (note: no period after kw) |
| l - liter | l, ll - line, lines (to avoid confusion, better to spell out line, lines) |
| lab. - laboratory | lang. - language |
| lat. - latitude | lb - Latin libra = pound |
| LC - Library of Congress | leg. - legal |
| legis. - legislation, legislative, legislator, legislature | lib. - liberal, librarian, library |
| lieut. / lt. - lieutenant | lit. - literally, literary, literature |
| loc. cit. - l.c. - Latin loco citato = in the place cited; in the same passage, same work, same page, by same publisher and same author as cited previously. | lon. / long. - longitude |
| LP - long-playing phonograph record | ltd. - limited |
| m. - male, married, meridian, Latin meridies = noon, meter, mile, minute, month |
mach. - machine, machinist |
| mag. - magazine | maj. - major |
| mas. / masc. - masculine | math. - mathematician, mathematics |
| MB - megabyte | mdse. - merchandise |
| mech. - mechanical, mechanics | mem. / memo - Latin memento = remember, memorandum |
| med. - medical, medicine, medieval | |
| mfg. - manufacturing | mfr. - manufacture, manufacturer |
| mg / mg. / mgm - milligram | mgr. - manager |
| mi - miles, mill (note: no period after mi) | misc. - miscellaneous |
| ml / ml. - milliliter | mm - millimeter(s), Latin millia = thousands |
| mo. - month(s) | mod. - moderate, modern |
| MS / MSS - manuscript, manuscripts | mt. / mts. - mount, mountain, mountains |
| mus. - museum, music, musician | n / nn - note, notes |
| n. - noun | narr. - narrator, narrated by |
| natl. - national | nav. - naval, navigation |
| NB - Latin nota bene = mark well, take notice, note well | n.d. - no date of publication |
| NED - A New English Dictionary (now OED - Oxford English Dictionary) | n.n. - no name |
| neg. - negative | no. - number |
| non seq. - Latin non sequitur = it does not follow | nonstand. - nonstandard |
| n.p. - no place of publication, no publisher | n. pag. - no page number, no pagination |
| ns - new series | NS - New Style (New Style calendar: Gregorian calendar was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 Feb. 1582) |
| numb. - numbered | |
| obit. - obituary | obj. - object, objective |
| obs. - obsolete | OCLC - Online Computer Library Center |
| OED - The Oxford English Dictionary (formerly NED - New English Dictionary) | op. - opus (work - especially musical composition) |
| op. cit. - Latin opere citato = in the work cited, but not the same page | orch. - orchestra, orchestrated by |
| org. - organization (domain extension, e.g. en.wikipedia.org) | orig. - original, originally |
| os - old series, original series | OS - Old Style (Old Style calendar: Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, came into force 45 BC) |
| oz. - ounce (Italian abbrev. of onza) | p. / pp. - page, pages |
| P - Press (e.g. UP - University Press) | par. - paragraph, parallel |
| part. - participle | |
| passim - here and there | pat. /patd. - patent, patented |
| pct. - percent | p.d. - Latin per diem = by the day |
| PDF - portable document format | pen. - peninsular |
| per se - by itself, of itself | perf. - performer, performed by |
| philol. - philology, philological | philos. - philosopher, philosophy |
| phys. - physical, physician, physicist, physics | pl. - plate, plural |
| poss. - possessive | ppd. - postpaid, prepaid |
| pref. - preface, preface by | prep. - preposition |
| pres. - present | prin. - principal, principle |
| proc. - proceedings | prod. - produced by, producer, production |
| pro tem. - Latin pro tempore = for the time being | pron. - pronoun, pronunciation |
| pronunc. - pronunciation | PS - postscript |
| pseud. - pseudonym - pen name | psych. / psychol. - psychological, psychologist, psychology |
| pt - pint (note: no period after pt) | pt. - part, payment, point, port |
| pub. / publ. - public, publisher, publication, published by | Pub. L. - Public Law |
| pwt - pennyweight (note: no period after pwt) | |
| q. - quarto, question | q.v. - Latin quod vide - which see |
| qr. - quarter | qt - quart (note: no period after qt) |
| qt. - quiet (slang) | qtd. - quoted |
| ques. - question | quot. - quotation |
| r. - reigned | r.b.i. / rbi / RBI - run(s) batted in (Baseball) |
| rec. - receipt, recipe, record, recorded | ref. - referee, reference, reformed. Ref. - Reference (section in Library) |
| reg. - regent, regiment, region, registered, registrar, regular, regulation | rel. - relative, release |
| rept. - report, reported by | res. - resolution |
| resp. - respectively | rev. - review, reviewed by, revision, revised, revised by |
| riv. - river | RLIN - Research Libraries Information Network |
| rpm - revolutions per minute (unit of frequency used to measure rotational speed of gramophone/phonograph records, which typically rotate at 16, 33⅓, 45, or 78 rpm). See Indopedia. | rps / r.p.s. - revolutions per second (used in electrical or mechanical engineering) |
| rpt. - reprint, reprinted, reprinted by | s. - saint, second, semi-, shilling, silver, sire, solo, son, soprano, south. S / SS - Saint, Saints |
| S - Senate | sc. - scene |
| S. Doc. - Senate Document | sch. - school |
| sci. - science, scientific, scientist | sculp / sculp. - sculptor, sculptural, sculpture |
| sec - secant, second(s) | sec. / secy. - secretary |
| sec. / sect. - section | ser. - series |
| serg. / sergt. / sgt. - sergeant | sess. - session |
| [sic.] - thus in the source (exactly as quoted) | sing. - singular |
| soc. - society | sol. - solicitor |
| sp. - special, species, specific, specimen, spelling, spirit | spec. - special |
| sq. - square, sequence | Sr. - Senior |
| S. Rept. - Senate Report | S. Res. - Senate Resolution |
| st. - stanza | St. /Sts. - Saint, Saints |
| Stat. - statistic, thermostat, photostat, Statutes at Large, Latin statim = immediately | |
| sub. - submarine, substitute, suburb | subj. - subject, subjective, subjunctive |
| substand. - substandard | sup. - superior, supplement, supply, (Latin supra = above), supreme |
| supp. - supplement | supt. - superintendent |
| surg. - surgeon, surgery | sym. - symbol, symphony |
| syn. - synonym, synonymous | t. - temperature, tempo, (Latin tempore = in the time of), tenor, tense (grammar), territory, time, ton(s), town, transitive, troy (weight) |
| tbs. / tbsp. - tablespoon | tel. - telegram, telegraph, telephone |
| temp. - temperature, temporary | terr. - territory |
| theol. - theologian, theological, theology | topog. - topographical, topography |
| trans. / tr. - transitive, translated by, translation, translator | treas. - treasurer, treasury |
| trig. / trigon. - trigonometric, trigonometry | TS / TSS - typescript, typescripts |
| tsp. - teaspoon | twp. - township |
| U - University (e.g. UP - University Press) | ult. - ultimate |
| univ. - universal, university | UP - University Press |
| URL - uniform resource locator (e.g. http://www.bydewey.com/ is the URL for A Research Guide for Students) | USC - United States Code |
| usu. - usually | uv - ultraviolet (note: no period after uv) |
| v. - verb, verse, versus, Latin vide = see, voltage, von (German name), v. = toward, opposite | var. - variant |
| vb. - verb | VCR - video cassette recorder |
| vers. - version | vet. - veteran, veterinary |
| VHS - video home system (a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs) | |
| vide ante- see the preceding | vide infra - see below or the following |
| vide supra - see above | viz. - Latin videlicet = namely |
| vol. - volcano, volume | vox. pop. - Latin vox populi = voice of the people |
| v.p. - vice president, vice principal | v.s. - Latin vide supra = see above |
| vs. / v. - Latin versus = against | vs. / vss. - verse, verses |
| wpm - words per minute | writ. - writer, written by |
| wt - weight (no period after wt) | www - World Wide Web |
| yd - yard(s) | yr - year |
| zn = zinc |
The above list of abbreviations is by no means complete. For a more exhaustive list of common and specialized abbreviations please see Abbreviation from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For a complete list of Common Scholarly Abbreviations and Reference Words, please see Chapter 7.4 in MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th Edition.
Note: When documenting sources using MLA style, the normal punctuations are omitted for degrees when used in parentheses, tables, works cited, and so forth. For example, B.A. is written as BA. Other abbreviations retain the periods if applicable, e.g. acad., bib., misc.
| BA - Bachelor of Arts | BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration |
| BS - Bachelor of Science | DA - Doctor of Arts |
| EdD - Doctor of Education | JD - Doctor of Law (Latin juris doctor) |
| LLB - Bachelor of Laws (Latin legum baccalaureus) | LLD - Doctor of Laws (Latin legum doctor) |
| LLM - Master of Laws (Latin legum magister) | MA - Master of Arts |
| MBA - Master of Business Administration | MD - Doctor of Medicine (Latin medicinae doctor) |
| MS - Master of Science | PhD - Doctor of Philosophy (Latin philosophiae doctor) |
| Ado - Much Ado about Nothing | Ant. - Antony and Cleopatra |
| AWW - All�s Well That Ends Well | AYL - As You Like ItAnt. - Antony and Cleopatra |
| Cor. - Coriolanus | Cym. - Cymbeline |
| Err. - The Comedy of Errors | F1 - First Folio edition (1623) |
| F2 - Second Folio edition (1632) | Ham. - Hamlet |
| 1H4 - Henry IV, Part 1 | 2H4 - Henry IV, Part 2 |
| H5 - Henry V | 1H6 - Henry VI, Part 1 |
| 2H6 - Henry VI, Part 2 | 3H6 - Henry VI, Part 3 |
| H8 - Henry VIII | JC - Julius Caesar |
| Jn. - King John | LC - A Lover�s Complaint |
| LLL - Love�s Labour�s Lost | Lr. - King Lear |
| Luc. - The Rape of Lucrece | Mac. - Macbeth |
| MM - Measure for Measure | MND - A Midsummer Night�s Dream |
| MV - The Merchant of Venice | Oth. - Othello |
| Per. - Pericles | PhT - The Phoenix and the Turtle |
| PP - The Passionate Pilgrim | Q - Quarto edition |
| R2 - Richard II | R3 - Richard III |
| Rom. - Romeo and Juliet | Shr. - The Taming of the Shrew |
| Son. - Sonnets | TGV - The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| Tim. - Timon of Athens | Tit. - Titus Andronicus |
| Tmp. - The Tempest | TN - Twelfth Night |
| TNK - The Two Noble Kinsmen | Tro. - Troilus and Cressida |
| Ven. - Venus and Adonis | Wiv. - The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| WT - The Winter�s Tale |
The above abbreviations have been gathered from various lists of Abbreviations of Works by Shakespeare: The Shakespeare Project - Abbreviations, Standard Abbreviations of Shakespearean Titles, with bias towards MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th Edition (7.7.2).
Abbreviation from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Types of abbreviations include acronym and initialism (including three-letter acronyms), apocope, clipping, elision, syncope, syllabic abbreviation, and portmanteau.
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Telecommunications and Virtual Phone System Glossary of Terms from Freedom800. Commonly used terms include: ACD. ANI, ANSI, FDDI, ISDN, IVR, PBX, PDF, POTS, PSTN, SMS, SMS800, SOHO, TIF, VoIP.
US Army Abbreviations, Brevity Codes, and Acronyms (ABCA). Records Management and Declassification Agency. Search U.S. Army exact Abbreviation, Brevity Code, or Acronym, Acronym begins with, Acronym (wild card), Reverse lookup (Keywords), or Search by Criteria.
U.S. Government Acronyms and Abbreviations from About.com. See also GovSpeak: A Guide to Government Acronyms &s; Abbreviations by Kelly L. Smith.
United States Postal Service - Official USPS Abbreviations. State Abbreviations, Street Suffixes - abbreviations for Annex, Avenue, Boulevard ... Secondary Unit Designators - abbreviations for Apartment, Basement, Floor ...
Usenet Abbreviations and Acronyms by Dr J R Stockton, Surrey, UK.
Vietnam Veteran Marines Glossary: A-Z. Americans in Vietnam had their own unique language, and each unit had its own dialect. In the CAPs (Combined Action Program Marines), their dialect took words from English, Vietnamese and French, with expressions borrowed from street slang, Marine jargon, rock-and-roll and many other sources.
