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    INITIALISM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separatelyplay

    Example:

    HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("initialism" is a kind of...):

    abbreviation (a shortened form of a word or phrase)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one wordplay

    Example:

    the word 'scuba' is an acronym for s(elf)-c(ontained) u(nderwater) b(reathing) a(pparatus)

    Synonyms:

    acronym; initialism

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("initialism" is a kind of...):

    descriptor; form; signifier; word form (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something)

    Domain member usage:

    snafu (an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up)

    MPEG (a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards)

    DINK (a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids))

    weakly interacting massive particle; WIMP (a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe)

    NIMBY (someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard)

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