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Noun

acronym initialism

Definition: a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word; "`NATO' is an initialism for North Atlantic Treaty Organization"; "the word `scuba' is an acronym for s(elf)-c(ontained) u(nderwater) b(reathing) a(pparatus)"

initialism

Definition: an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; "HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language"

Definition: A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

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