Viz

Harold Combs

viz

\Viz\, adv. [Contr. fr. videlicet.] To wit; that is; namely.

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I always thought viz. was short for ‘vis-a-vis’, but I was totally wrong. My guys in India use this abbreviation all the time, and for like 2 years I had no idea what they meant.