• n. 首字母縮略詞

詞根acer-, 尖的，首的，開頭的。詞根-onym, 名字，詞源同name. 用于指首字母縮略詞。

acronym (n.)

word formed from the first letters of a series of words, 1943, American English coinage from acro- + -onym "name" (abstracted from homonym; see name (n.)). But for cabalistic esoterica and acrostic poetry, the practice was practically non-existent before 20c. For distinction of usage (not maintained on this site), see initialism.

1. AIDS is an acronym for "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".

AIDS是“獲得性免疫缺損綜合癥“的首字母縮略詞。

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2. The determent policy has been dubbed MAD, an appropriate acronym which stands for mutual assured destruction.

核禁政策稱為MAD, 很貼切,是表示保證互相毀滅的縮合字.

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3. That's a mouthful of an acronym for a very simple technology.

對于一項非常簡單的技術來說,這是一個很繞口的縮寫詞.

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4. This example demonstrates how to handle an abbreviationan acronym.

演示了怎么處理縮寫和簡稱.

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5. Use acronym searchers to discover additional meaning to a domain.

將一個域名當作首字母縮寫來發現它的附加意義.

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