Microwaves are used to detect speeding cars and to send telephone and television communications. Industry uses microwaves to dry and cure plywood, to cure rubber and resins, to raise bread and doughnuts, and to cook potato chips. But the most common consumer use of microwave energy is in microwave ovens.
An abbreviation is simply a shortening of a word or phrase. An abbreviation can be an acronym or an initialism. An acronym can be pronounced like a word: AFLAC (as uttered by â¦ the company's mascot duck), NASA, or URL.
One common abbreviation is ca.. Another way is the equals sign = with a squiggle over it-- like an S on its side. ## The word about is abbreviated as: abt. (The dot at the â¦end shows that the sequence of letters is not a word in itself, but stands for one.) Ca. is the abbreviation for Latin circa, which means about.