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• Calling that enables a user to employ an address having fewer characters than the full address when initiating a call. Note: Communications network users may be allowed to designate a given number of abbreviated address codes. The allocation of the abbreviated address codes to a destination or group of destinations may be changed as required, by means of a suitable procedure. [After Weik '96]

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  American Psychological Association (APA)

  abbreviated address calling. (n.d.). ATIS Telecom Glossary 2007. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/abbreviated-address-calling.

  Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

  abbreviated address calling. www.atis.org. ATIS Telecom Glossary 2007. ATIS. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/abbreviated-address-calling (accessed: February 4, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "abbreviated address calling." ATIS Telecom Glossary 2007. ATIS. 4 February. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/abbreviated-address-calling.

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