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initialism

/ɪ'nɪʃə,lɪzəm/

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noun
a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word
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"`NATO' is an initialism for North Atlantic Treaty Organization"

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noun
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately
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"HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language"

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