Acronism

What is Acronism?


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an abbreviated form of a set of words, that form being comprised of a combination of both an initialism(s) and acronym(s)

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is both an initialism (J+P..) and an acronym (.."PEG"), therefore it is an acronism.

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