initialism
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Meaning
- noun A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- noun The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.
Similar words
abbreviations acronyms initials symbols acronym alphabetism acronymy initialist recursive acronym pseudo-acronym
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initialisms
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