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initialism

noun
/ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm/

Etymology

From initial + -ism.

  1. borrowed from initial
  2. suffixed as initialism — “initial + ism”

Definitions

  1. A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is…

    A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

    • The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

  2. The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.

    • The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.

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Derived

orphan initialism

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for initialism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA