INITIALISM

initialism

(noun) 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”

acronym, initialism

(noun) 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)”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

initialism (plural initialisms)

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

(linguistics) The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.

Source: Wiktionary

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