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An abbreviation is a truncated word; an acronym is made up of parts of the phrase it stands for and is pronounced as a word (ELISA, AIDS, GABA); an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters (DNA, RT-PCR). For the purposes of this section, ?abbreviation? will refer to all of these.

Initialism is a type of abbreviation that uses the first letters of words in a phrase to make a term, which may or may not be pronounced as a new word. As such, acronyms are initialisms.

PDF is an abbreviation that stands for Portable Document Format. It's a versatile file format created by Adobe that gives people an easy, reliable way to present and exchange documents - regardless of the software, hardware, or operating systems being used by anyone who views the document.

This online-only Dictionary of Abbreviations, exclusive to Oxford Reference Online, includes over 100,000 abbreviations and acronyms in alphabetical and numerical order, including the world's airports, airlines, currencies, astronomical signs and symbols, atomic numbers, and stocks codes, as well as computer, country, ...

Acronyms comprise the initial letters (and sometimes syllables) of the words in a term and are pronounced as a word.

RSVP ? Please reply. As with so much of English, this comes from French. ... ASAP ? As soon as possible. ... AM/PM ? Before midday (morning) and after midday (afternoon) ... LMK ? Let me know. ... BRB ? Be right back. ... DOB ? Date of birth. ... CC/BCC ? Carbon copy/blind carbon copy. ... TBA/TBC- To be announced/To be confirmed.

Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations. (Note that abbreviations include shortened words like "esp." for "especially" as well as shortened phrases.)