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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An abbreviation formed by (usually initial) letters taken from a word or series of words, that is itself pronounced as a word, such as RAM, radar, or scuba; sometimes contrasted with initialism.
  • n. A pronounceable word formed from the beginnings (letter or syllable) of other words and thus representing the phrase so formed, e.g. Benelux = the countries Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg considered as a political or economic whole.
  • n. Any abbreviation so formed, regardless of pronunciation, such as TNT, IBM, or XML.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
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