Acronym

An Acronym is a Contracted Terminal Content Word.

• Context:
  • Acronym Generation Process.
  • Is more constrained than Abbreviations, e.g. Biomedical Abbreviations.
• Example(s):
  • “I.B.M.” ← “International Business Machines”.
  • “UNICEF” ← “United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund”.
  • “USA” ← “United States of America”.
  • lol” ← “laugh out loud”.
  • List of Acronyms included in the GM-RKB concept pages.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Abbreviations:
    • “ltd.” ← “limited”
    • “vs.” ← “versus”
    • “etc.” ← “et cetera”
    • “Dr.” ← “Doctor”
• See: Abbreviation.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=acronym
  • S: (n) acronym (a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name)

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