Abbreviating meaning in General Dictionary
of Abbreviate
Abbreviating meaning in General Dictionary
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviate
Sentence Examples with the word Abbreviating
Logarithms were originally invented for the sake of abbreviating arithmetical calculations, as by their means the operations of multiplication and division may be replaced by those of addition and subtraction, and the operations of raising to powers and extraction of roots by those of multiplication and division.