abbreviation acronym

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• acronym — ac‧ro‧nym [ˈækrənɪm] noun [countable] a word made up of the first letters of the name of something such as an organization. For example, NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization * * * acronym UK US /ˈækrəʊnɪm/ noun [C] ► an… …   Financial and business terms

• Acronym Finder — is an online searchable database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and otherwise) and their meanings. It includes over 575,000 human edited and verified definitions, many of them related to computers, technology, telecommunications,… …   Wikipedia

• acronym — 1. This term, which was first used in the 1940s, denotes a type of abbreviation made up of a set of initials that are pronounced as a single word, as Nato is (as distinct from BBC). An acronym is generally treated as a word in its own right in… …   Modern English usage

• Acronym and initialism — For acronyms used on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Acronyms. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux and …   Wikipedia

• Abbreviation — For the <abbr> HTML tag, see HTML element. For guidelines on making and editing abbreviation articles on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a… …   Wikipedia

• Acronym — Ein Akronym (=Initialwort) (griech. ἀκρωνύμιον, von ἄκρος/ákros, „die Spitze, der Rand“, und ὄνομα/ónoma, „der Name“) ist ein Sonderfall der Abkürzung. Es gibt zwei konkurrierende Definitionen des Begriffs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Begriffsdefinition …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• abbreviation — /euh bree vee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor, U.S. for United States, lb. for pound. 2. an act of abbreviating; state or result of being abbreviated; reduction… …   Universalium

• acronym — UK [ˈækrənɪm] / US [ˈækrəˌnɪm] noun [countable] Word forms acronym : singular acronym plural acronyms linguistics an abbreviation consisting of letters that form a word. For example, NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization …   English dictionary

• abbreviation — noun 1) the abbreviation for teaspoon is tsp. or just t. Syn: shortened form, short form, contraction, acronym, initialism, symbol, diminutive; elision Ant: full form 2) Desi Arnaz was an abbreviation of the bandleader s full name, Desiderio… …   Thesaurus of popular words

• acronym — any abbreviation using the initial letters of the words abbreviated. Museum collections of fishes are catalogued with an acronym and a number; these acronyms are listed in Leviton et al. (1985) and Leviton and Gibbs (1988) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• acronym — ac|ro|nym [ ækrə,nım ] noun count an abbreviation consisting of letters that form a word. For example, NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English