Definition of "initialisms" [initialisms]

• Plural form of initialism. (noun)

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• "Although the book offers a good coverage of universal abbreviations, acronyms, and what are these days called "initialisms" in its 27,000 entries and "over" 37,000 definitions and goes into British material quite thoroughly, it is too sparse in its inclusion of American matter to make it of significant usefulness to American users, who should cleave to the De Sola dictionaries of abbreviations."
• "Technically, acronyms are pronounced as if they were words (e.g., "NASA"), and initialisms are pronounced one letter at a time (as in "CIA")."
• "A year or so ago, I was looking for a way to help identify acronyms and initialisms in my company's documents, and came across a document called "Advanced Find and Replace for Microsoft Word" at [www. editorium.com] Who knew you could write 20 pages about find a replace."