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acronym n.首字母缩略词 (1) 您能告诉我这些缩写的大写字母代表什么意思吗?(2) “ASDIC”是“反潜艇侦查调查委员会”的缩写形式。 What do NOW, sonar, and scuba have in common? They are all acronyms. Not only does each letter come from the first letter of another word, but each group of letters is easy to pronounce as its own word. Though its roots are classic (acro means “tip” and nym means “name”), acronym is fairly new as English words go; it has only been around since the early 1940s.

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英 ['ækrənɪm] 美 ['ækrənɪm] (1) Could you tell me what this acronym stands for?(2) ASDIC is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee. Are the members of your after-school club tripping over the title “Organization for Lovers of Apple Pie”? Why not use each of the words’ first letters to make an acronym, and call it OFLOAP? There, that’s better. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（尤用作名称）首字母缩拼词，首字母缩略词 An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.

英语单词	acronym
英美音标	英 ['ækrənɪm] 美 ['ækrənɪm]
中文释义	n.首字母缩略词
英语例句	(1) Could you tell me what this acronym stands for? (2) ASDIC is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee.
中文例句	(1) 您能告诉我这些缩写的大写字母代表什么意思吗? (2) “ASDIC”是“反潜艇侦查调查委员会”的缩写形式。
vocabulary简明	Are the members of your after-school club tripping over the title “Organization for Lovers of Apple Pie”? Why not use each of the words’ first letters to make an acronym, and call it OFLOAP? There, that’s better.
vocabulary扩展	What do NOW, sonar, and scuba have in common? They are all acronyms. Not only does each letter come from the first letter of another word, but each group of letters is easy to pronounce as its own word. Though its roots are classic (acro means “tip” and nym means “name”), acronym is fairly new as English words go; it has only been around since the early 1940s.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（尤用作名称）首字母缩拼词，首字母缩略词 An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.

Acronym Letters Means Words 英 ækrənɪm] 美 ækrənɪm N.首字母缩略词