What are words that are abbreviated?

What are words that are abbreviated?

Acronym

• An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase.
• Acronyms can be pronounced as words, like NASA and UNESCO; sometimes as individual letters, as in FBI, TNT, and ATM, and as both letters and words, as in JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg) and IUPAC.

What is the abbreviation for not known?

Acronym	Definition
NK	Not Known
NK	Nogometni Klub (Croatian: Football Club)
NK	Ninja Kiwi (game developer; New Zealand)
NK	Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ship classification society)

Is UNK a word?

noun. An informal term for: one’s uncle; an uncle.

Is not known synonym?

What is another word for not known?

unidentified	anonymous
unknown	unfamiliar
incognito	mysterious
unmarked	innominate
unclassified	unspecified

Why are acronyms so difficult?

This makes them particularly insidious; it’s relatively easy for an acronym to slip into our vocabulary as a word in its own right, leaving behind its baggage. We may not even remember what words like “scuba” and “snafu” stand for — or even that they stand for anything.

What are some examples of acronyms in everyday life?

A good example is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which forms the word, NATO. Other examples are NASA, POTUS, and SCUBA. If you didn’t know, SCUBA means self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Radar is also an acronym.

What are 25 words that are actually acronyms?

25 Words That Are Actually Acronyms. 1 1. AGA. Not the aga as in “Aga Khan,” this Aga is a type of cast-iron cooking range invented in Sweden in the early 1920s, which became popular in 2 2. BASE JUMPING. 3 3. CAPTCHA. 4 4. CARE PACKAGE. 5 5. COMECON.

When did acronyms become so popular?

The word itself only dates back to the 1940s. But now that they’re here, they’re here to stay — and they’ve become ubiquitous. Acronyms are words formed with the initial letters of a phrase, but unlike an initialism (such as the FBI) an acronym is pronounced phonetically.