| NOUN | communication | initialism, acronym | a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name |
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| communication | initialism | an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately |
| Meaning | A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. | |
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| Synonym | acronym | |
| 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 |
| Usage | DINK | A couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) |
| 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 | |
| Catalan | acrònim, sigla | |
| Meaning | An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately. | |
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| Example | "HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language" | |
| Broader | abbreviation | A shortened form of a word or phrase |
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