"unabbreviation" meaning in English

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          "text": "All legitimate unabbreviations of a given abbreviation are congruent, and hence by Lemma 15b equivalent. Thus it is immaterial in considering questions of deducibility and provability which legitimate unabbreviation is used.",
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          "ref": "1957, Norman Kretzmann, Elements of Formal Logic: An Introductory Textbook, Long’s College Book Company, page 142:",
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          "text": "The first equivalence in *R7.8, *R7.9 is simply an unabbreviation of \"α∘≯β\".",
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          "text": "(∃ ! y)(Pyz ⋅ My) 5, UI / (∃y)[Pyz ⋅ My (x)(Pxz ⋅ Mx ⊃ y = x)] unabbreviation",
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          "text": "Likewise, when we use other abbreviations, we can be vague about which of a number of logically equivalent unabbreviations is intended. For example, ϕ ⋀ ψ ⋀ χ could abbreviate either ϕ ⋀ (ψ ⋀ χ) or (ϕ ⋀ ψ) ⋀ χ, but since these two formulas are logically equivalent, it usually does not matter which of the two sentences we choose officially to represent ϕ ⋀ ψ ⋀ χ.",
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          "text": "Latitude’s abbrev function allows you to create a library of abbreviations. Using this feature, you can generate files that contain unabbreviated forms of words or lines of text that you frequently use. Because abbreviation files allow you to create “unabbreviations” of up to several hundred characters, they can be a real timesaver.",
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          "ref": "1990, Angelo Margaris, “[The Predicate Calculus] Equality”, in First Order Mathematical Logic (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics), Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "We have chosen v in (1) to be a specific variable to make sure that (2) has a unique unabbreviation.",
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          "ref": "2017, Tony Roy, “[Formal Languages] Sentential Languages”, in Sentential Logic (Symbolic Logic: An Accessible Introduction to Serious Mathematical Logic), San Bernardino, Calif.: John M. Pfau Library, →OCLC, page 46:",
          "text": "In fact, this is a good check on your unabbreviations: If the result is not a formula, you have made a mistake!",
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          "text": "Let T be a first-order theory which encodes [its own syntax] in plausibly normalised ways (cf. (Smorynski, 1977), 827) and let δ in L(T) be an appropriate unabbreviation—(cf. 3.12 of (Boos, 1998)) of the following sentence: 3.24.1 [it is unprovable in T that [metatheoretic pointwise definability is expressible in T]].",
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          "ref": "1970, Michael D[avid] Resnik, “Formal deductive theories”, in Elementary Logic, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, part 4 (Extensions of Quantification Theory and Other Advanced Topics), page 406:",
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          "text": "Latitude’s abbrev function allows you to create a library of abbreviations. Using this feature, you can generate files that contain unabbreviated forms of words or lines of text that you frequently use. Because abbreviation files allow you to create “unabbreviations” of up to several hundred characters, they can be a real timesaver.",
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