acronym
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1. a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | descriptor, form, signifier, word form, |
| definition | : | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something (noun.communication) |
| domain member usage | : | snafu, |
| definition | : | an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | mpeg, |
| definition | : | a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | dink, |
| definition | : | a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) (noun.group) |
| domain member usage | : | weakly interacting massive particle, wimp, |
| definition | : | a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe (noun.object) |
| domain member usage | : | nimby, |
| definition | : | someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard (noun.person) |
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