Abbreviation vs. Intermediate — What's the Difference?

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NPO, for nil (or nothing) per (by) os (mouth) is an abbreviated medical instruction.

Coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

The act or product of shortening.

An intermediate thing.

A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps.

Act as intermediary; mediate

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state

(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 +, =, @.

One that is in a middle position or state.

The process of abbreviating.

An intermediary.

(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.

(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.

(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.

Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.

To act as an intermediary; mediate.

(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.

To intervene.

(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

The act of shortening, or reducing.

Anything in an intermediate position.

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

An intermediary.

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

A shortened form of a word or phrase

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Shortening something by omitting parts of it

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Something that is intermediate.

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;