deabbreviate

present singular third person deabbreviates · participle present deabbreviating · participle past deabbreviated · past deabbreviated

1. rareTo expand (an abbreviation).

   Simplified Main Stress Rule in Deabbreviated Form

   1973, Alvin L. Gregg, Capturing Native Intuitions: A Criticism of the Chomsky-Halle Auxiliary Reduction Rules

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   Deabbreviating means replacing an abbreviated name with a more understandable "natural" one consisting of whole English words. To deabbreviate, we "generate-and-test": We select candidates and abbreviate them various ways, trying to obtain a match with a given abbreviation.

   1994 March, Neil C. Rowe, Kari Laitinen, Semiautomatic Deabbreviation of Source Programs, Monterey, Calif.: Naval Postgraduate School, page 4

   To me there is no better way to define the slums than what the authors have done by deabbreviating SLUM (‘Sombre life of underprivileged mankind’).

   1999, A[hmed] Mushtaque R[aza] Chowdhury, “Foreword”, in AKM Ahsan Ullah, Abdar Rahman, Munira Murshed, Poverty and Migration: Slums of Dhaka City: The Realities, Dhaka: Association for Rural Development and Studies, →ISBN, page 7

   The first visualization construct is apt: it replaces three items (two arrows and the marker) by one item in a natural and clear-how-to-deabbreviate way.

   2002, Data & Knowledge Engineering, page 11

   What is NLP? Can it be any broader a title? Indeed, what is it? I don’t actually think it makes it any easier to “deabbreviate” it – its^([sic]) Neuro Linguistic Programming.

   2007, Kirsty McKinnon, The Gift: A ‘How To’ for NLP with Real Life Experiences, Stanstead Abbotts, Herts.: MX Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 12

   STP […] Probably coined as an abbreviation of ‘serotonin triphosphate’ and as an allusion to the trademark name of a motor oil additive, and later deabbreviated to ‘serenity, tranquillity and peace’.

   2008, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Vice Slang, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN

   Synonyms: unabbreviate