acronym

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n. 首字母缩拼词, 首字母组合词 [计] 字首组合词

发音

UK /ˈæk.ɹə.nɪm/

词形变化

acronyms 复数 acronyms acronymed acronyming acronymmed acronymming acronyms 三单 acronyming 现在分词 acronymming 现在分词 acronymed 过去式 acronymed 过去分词 acronymmed 过去式 acronymmed 过去分词

别名

a.

教材释义与例句

名词

首字母缩略词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.

    Generally such abbreviations, including those pronounced as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").

    首字母缩略词

    缩写

    缩略词

    略语

    语言学
  2. 2.

    An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.

    Exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser" or "NATO").

    语言学
  3. 3.

    An abbreviation formed by the beginning letters or syllables of other words (as "Benelux").

    语言学
v.
  1. 1.

    To form into an acronym.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

initialism

上位词 4

form descriptor signifier wordform

相关短语

redundant acronym syndrome RAS syndrome recursive acronym orphan acronym

词源

Borrowed from German Akronym, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end, peak”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to acro- (“high; beginning”) + -onym (“name”). Modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940.

来源：wiktionary