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A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word
"`NATO' is an initialism for North Atlantic Treaty Organization"; "the word `scuba' is an acronym for s(elf)-c(ontained) u(nderwater) b(reathing) a(pparatus)";
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An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately
"HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language";
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