Meaning | A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. |
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Synonym | acronym |
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Broader | form, word form, signifier, descriptor | The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something |
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Usage | DINK | A couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) |
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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 |
NIMBY | someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere |
snafu | An acronym often used by soldiers in World War II |
weakly interacting massive particle, WIMP | A hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation |
Spanish | acrónimo, sigla |
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Catalan | acrònim, sigla |
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