Acronym (Noun)
Meaning
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)".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The company's name is an acronym for Advanced Computing Systems and Technology.
- NASA is an acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States.
- She struggled to memorize the acronym for the disease the doctor had just explained to her.
- He often referred to the global organization Oxfam but never revealed what the acronym stood for.
- The computer programming class is an acronym for Fundamentals in Language Programming and Graphics.