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Initialism vs Dioxin - What's the difference?

initialism | dioxin |

As nouns the difference between initialism and dioxin

is that 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 while dioxin is (organic chemistry) any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides.

initialism

English

Noun

(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)
  • A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
  • BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

    See also

    * abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *

    dioxin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides
  • (organic compound) the parent compound, dibenzo-p -dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene
  • (organic compound) the unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds