Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   A common abbreviation of 
abbreviated and abbreviation. 
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- noun   Alternative spelling of 
abbr.  
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Examples
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And a sesh has several meanings, the most literal of which is abbr = session.
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Microformats, hAccessibility and Moving Forward from A Blog Not Limited offers some pragmatic code examples for an accessibility issue related to the use of the abbr design pattern when expressing dates in microformats.
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I thought it might be Paddington but didn't know the abbr!
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The BBC have announced (in 'Removing Microformats from bbc. co.uk/programmes') that they'll stop using the hCalendar microformat because of concerns about accessibility, specifically the use of the HTML abbreviation element (the abbr tag):
Archive 2008-06-01 Mia 2008
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As for the abbr-design-pattern issue, I think the BBC have made a good call here.
The BBC, accessibility, the hCalendar microformat and RDFa Mia 2008
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This overloading of the abbreviation tag also has implications for people using abbr correctly.
BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good) Mia 2008
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Open Objects: BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good) skip to main | skip to sidebar
BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good) Mia 2008
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BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good)
Archive 2008-05-01 Mia 2008
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BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good)
BBC on microformats, abbr (and why the machine-readable web is good) Mia 2008
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The BBC have announced (in 'Removing Microformats from bbc. co.uk/programmes') that they'll stop using the hCalendar microformat because of concerns about accessibility, specifically the use of the HTML abbreviation element (the abbr tag):
The BBC, accessibility, the hCalendar microformat and RDFa Mia 2008
 
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