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recursive acronym

noun

Etymology

From recursive + acronym, originating in early hacker culture and later popularized by Douglas Hofstadter.

  1. derived from ἄκρον
  2. borrowed from Akronym
  3. compounded as recursive acronym — “recursive + acronym”

Definitions

  1. An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is…

    An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

    • I used the odd variable name “tato”, mentioning that it is a recursive acronym standing for “tato (and tato only)”. Using this fact you can expand “tato” any number of times.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recursive acronym. 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