Usually means: Abbreviation using first letters only.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. initialism: Merriam-Webster
  2. initialism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. initialism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. initialism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. initialism: Wordnik
  6. initialism: Wiktionary
  7. initialism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. initialism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. initialism: Dictionary.com
  10. Initialism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. initialism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. initialism: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (initialism)

noun:  (linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
noun:  (linguistics) The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.

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