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initialism


  • 英式英标[ɪ\'nɪʃə,lɪzəm]
  • 美式音标[ɪ\'nɪʃ(ə)lɪz(ə)m]

n. 首字母缩略词

英文词源

initialism (n.)
word formed from the first letters of other words or a phrase, 1957, from initial (n.) + -ism. The distinction from acronym is not universally agreed-upon; in general, words such as NATO, where the letters form a word, are regarded as acronyms, those such as FBI, where the letters sound as letters, are initialisms. The use of acronym in entries in this dictionary that are technically initialisms is a deliberate error, because many people only know to search for all such words under "acronym."