initialism

In other instances, the letters may be an initialism for a name or slogan.

Abandonment of the initialism did not end the two organizations' legal conflict.

The developers' current stance is that the initialism no longer stands for anything specific.

It has maintained this initialism through all its subsequent name and ownership changes.

The name is an initialism referring to its four components:

An initialism is a word made from the first letters of each word in a phrase.

NA is an initialism which carries the same latter meaning.

In initialisms, the Geresh is written after the last letter of the initialism.

Vengeance was also responsible for the creation of the initialism "A7X".

Alos is an initialism used in managed health care and stands for "average length of stay".

The name was an initialism from the Union Lumber Company.

An initialism is similar to acronym but is not pronounced as a word.

Not an acronym, not an initialism, no need to capitalize.

The name is an initialism standing for Quality, Value, Convenience.

In addition, an initialism is sometimes used.

The term "orphan initialism" has also been used for names that began as an acronym but lost this status.

The title is almost always shortened to the initialism "MK".

As such, the project abandoned the initialism.

UOP is an initialism that may stand for the following:

TDU is an initialism which can mean any of the following:

IAA is a three letter initialism that may stand for:

When used as a word (not as an initialism)

So the initialism reached only occasional frequency in West German parlance.

E&OE is an initialism standing for errors and omissions excepted.

In describing such abbreviations, the term initialism is inapplicable.