We don’t care much for abbreviations. They are not literate (Oliver Twist was not abbreviated to OT each time Dickens mentioned his name!), they don’t look good on the printed page, and they make things more difficult to read and understand, particularly for non-experts. But they do save space and so we have to use them a bit. However, we will avoid them as far as we can in tables, figures and the practice points. We will try to define any abbreviations the first time they are used in each chapter, or even in each section if they are not very familiar. But, if we fail to be comprehensible, then here is a rather long list to refer to.
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