Initialism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
  • Word Usage
    "The plural of an initialism is the initialism plus s."
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