Usage of "abridgment"

Portuguese

compendio

Catalan

abreviació

Spanish

cápsula

Shortened form of something.

compendio

Synonyms

Examples for "capsule"

Today it's NASA's new Orion capsule, dropping from space onto the sea. 
 Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void 

Made 21 years ago, it is something of a social time capsule. 
 The Irish Times 

The Company offers products in various categories, including tablets, capsule and parenteral. 
 Reuters 

These will record the forces and the environment experienced inside the capsule. 
 Radio NZ 

If you thought capsule and micro hotels were something new, think again. 
 The Irish Times 

We don't want to risk having any possible condensation nuclei near us. 
 Cities in Flight 

Boson condensation is seen, for example, in the operation of a laser. 
 Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics 

The Kasidah consists of about 300 couplets of remarkable vigor in condensation. 
 The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 

In addition, increasing chromatin condensation corresponded to an increase in oocyte diameter. 
 Pubmed 

The faint continuous spectrum is probably the result of incipient central condensation. 
 The Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science 

The compendium's gears whirred, and the hands on the main dial moved. 
 The Book of Life 

A compendium of facts.-W.C.F.A. ,whichaccordingly rewarded the author with honorary membership. 
 The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments 

I never read Mr. Helper's book, or the compendium founded upon it. 
 Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ... 

Brexit has provided a compendium of case studies in political psychology. 
 The Irish Times 

The online compendium is intended to facilitate the safe use of animal medicines. 
 The Irish Times 

This abridgement was made by the different friends of the cause. 
 The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol... 

I had but one object in view, abridgement for compression sake. 
 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 / The Letters of C... 

An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 
 Familiar Quotations 

It may be deemed prolix, yet I should not do justice by a farther abridgement. 
 Observations on the Mussulmauns of India / Descriptive of Their ... 

Nor in what may be termed Plato's abridgement of the history of philosophy (Soph. 
 Meno 

Usage of abridgment in English

No confinement, no abridgment of food nor any labor required of them. 
 The Story of Commodore John Barry 

I give you below an abridgment of my interview with Mr. Mendizabal. 
 Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Societ... 

He seemed to the general public to be nothing but a walking abridgment. 
 Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 

There has been no attempt at abridgment in any other form. 
 The English Church in the Eighteenth Century 

The work of Enfield is based on Bruckner, or is rather an abridgment. 
 The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati... 

The work of Enfield is based on Brucker, or is rather an abridgment. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations 

This passage is an absolute abridgment of many chapters of Carpini. 
 The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 

But part or all of this abridgment may be lost by imperfect conduct. 
 The Subterranean Brotherhood 

If any substitute for a full translation is desired, this abridgment will serve. 
 A Mother's List of Books for Children 

I am by nature lazy; and this would be a mighty abridgment in knowledge. 
 Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce... 

Of the history he afterwards published an abridgment in English. 
 Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design... 

None the less was Rome the abridgment of every superstition. 
 Imperial Purple 

In a word, I am an abridgment of human miseries. 
 Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 

You see that this is a very short abridgment of the other intended matches. 
 Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette 

The legislator DISTRUSTS man, an abridgment of nature and a syncretism of all beings. 
 System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser... 

There was no reason for abridgment in treating of my father's connection with Greece. 
 The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol.... 