abbreviation of/for• Caps an abbreviation forcapitalletters.• Face an abbreviation fortypefacereferring to a family in a given style.• It is usual to design a logo around the organisation's name or an abbreviation of it.• The three-letter abbreviations for the 659 amino acids encoded in the open reading frame beginning at nucleotide position 133 are also shown.• Perhaps such abbreviations of thought are inevitable in the limitedspaceavailable for text on a displaylabel.• MIT is the abbreviation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.• The abbreviation for computer display is surely wrong.• The abbreviation of would indicate that the stock is a preferred stock.• Door after door, each bearing an unintelligibleabbreviation for what each room behind it contained.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ABBREVIATION | ABBREVIATION + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤common, standard常用/標準縮寫詞VERB + ABBREVIATION➤use使用縮寫詞◇Abbreviations are used in the text to save space.為節省空間,文中使用了縮寫詞。ABBREVIATION + VERB➤stand for是⋯的縮寫◇The abbreviation PC stands for 'personal computer'.PC 是 personal computer (個人計算機)的縮寫。PREPOSITION➤abbreviation for為⋯的縮寫◇AC is the standard abbreviation for 'air conditioning'.AC 是 air conditioning (空氣調節系統)的標準縮寫詞。➤abbreviation of⋯的縮寫◇Ad lib is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase 'ad libitum'.ad lib 是拉丁語詞組 ad libitum (即興的,即席的)的縮寫。