short form
Truncated written form
Short form refers to a condensed or abbreviated version of something longer.
A short form of a name might be a nickname or initialism: Bill is short form for William.
In legal contexts, a short form is a simplified document: short form birth certificate.
Short-form content—videos, articles, posts—is designed for quick consumption, typically under a few minutes: TikTok popularized short-form video.
abbreviation
Word made from initials
- initialismSpelled-out letter shortening
- contractionReduction in size
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
- truncationCutting something shorter
clipping · initials · symbol · notation · compression · condensation · brevity · conciseness
acronym
Word made from initials
- initialismSpelled-out letter shortening
- contractionReduction in size
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
truncation · clipping · initials · symbol · notation · compression · condensation · brevity · conciseness · compactness
- Hugo Awardsfan voting, nomination, winner
- birth recordsbirth date, birth name, birth record, birth registration, birth location
- Shorteningsabbreviation, acronym, initialism, contraction, truncation
- census methodscensus bureau, census forms, census tract, census year, enumeration
- legal citationscitations, legal citation, citing, citation format, id.
- Tai Chitaijiquan, qigong, ward off, forms, stances