OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14974

shorthand

/ˈʃɔːthænd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estenografía • taquigrafía
A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.
A is denoted by a dot at the top of the Short-hand line; [...] The vowel a, in Short-hand, is used for the article a, or ah; [...]
[...] I was soon convinced, that our articles a an the should also be omitted: especially as the two former are comparatively infrequent, and the latter a perpetual incumbrance in…
abreviatura
Any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.
It is important to recall that the European construct of "the Indian" and the abstraction designated as "Native American religion" are both artificial labels suggesting a unity tha…
The jargon becomes a shorthand for these advanced concepts.