Abbreviation vs Initialism - What's the difference?
abbreviation | initialism |
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
Abbreviation is a see also of initialism.
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and initialism
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.abbreviation
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(en noun)- the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
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(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.