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{{Short description|Reduction of a word to one of its parts}}
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In [[linguistics]], '''clipping''', also called '''truncation''' or '''shortening''',<ref name=Oxford/> is [[word formation]] by removing some [[Segment (linguistics)|segments]] of an existing word to create a [[synonym]].<ref name=Marchand/> Clipping differs from [[abbreviation]], which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from [[back-formation]], which proceeds by (pseudo-)[[morpheme]] rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and [[word class]] from its source and [[acronyms]] which are formed from individual letters.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=NAGANO|first=AKIKO|date=2007|journal=Acta Linguistica Hungarica|volume=54|issue=1|pages=33–72|issn=1216-8076|jstor=26190112|title=Marchand's Analysis of Back-Formation Revisited|doi=10.1556/ALing.54.2007.1.2|url=http://real.mtak.hu/54952/1/aling.54.2007.1.2.pdf}}</ref>
==Creation==
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