Assertion: acronym | /r/HasProperty | word
Facets:
value: technically
type: MANNER
value: from north atlantic treaty organization
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Merriam-Webster, for example, says that an acronym is just "a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name.
text: An acronym is a word formed by abbreviating a phrase by combining certain letters of words in the phrase (often the first initial of each) into a single term.
text: An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name (for example, NATO, from North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or by combining initial letters of a series of words (radar, from radio detection and ranging).
text: An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase, usually using individual initial letters, as in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or EU (European Union), but sometimes using syllables, as in Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), or a mixture of the two, as in radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging).
text: Technically, an acronym is a word that is formed by combining some parts (usually the first letters) of some other terms.
text: The difference is that an acronym is pronounced as if it were a word rather than just a series of individual letters.
text: An acronym is a word whose letters are the first letters of other words.
text: A well-known example of an acronym, a word derived from the initial letters of the words of a phrase, is the word radar, constructed from "radio detection and ranging".
text: An acronym is a word that pronounced by sounding out the full word.
text: See if you can think of a word to fill in the blank that would result in a meaningful acronym (i.e. the acronym is a word that relates to what the acronym stands for).
text: So while Swarm can also be an abbreviation the resolution of which describes what the acronym stands for, the acronym is also a word on its own right evoking in some real-life sense an analogy with the technical meaning.
text: An acronym is a word composed of first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name .
text: Acronyms can be words formed by the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word.
text: The lists contain various sorts of abbreviation, including acronyms, which are words made from the ititial letters of other words, and pronounced as a word themselves, and initialisms, which are like acronyms, but pronounced by spelling out the letters individually.
text: Strictly speaking, acronyms are words formed from the abbreviations of others, but as you'll see, many of these acronyms aren't words at all, and even some of the best known acronyms like LASER and RADAR have bent the acronym rules.