unabbreviate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + abbreviate.
Verb
[edit]unabbreviate (third-person singular simple present unabbreviates, present participle unabbreviating, simple past and past participle unabbreviated)
- (uncommon, transitive) To make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
- Synonym: (rare) deabbreviate
- 1967, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Dover, published 2002, page 293:
- It is easy to see what is going on, if in G & ∀x∃yP(x, y) we not only unabbreviate G, but take the outer conjunctions apart, […]