Usually means: Word formed from initial letters.
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  1. anacronym: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. anacronym: The Word Spy
  3. anacronym: Wiktionary
  4. anacronym: Dictionary.com
  5. Anacronym: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anacronym: Netlingo

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  1. Anacronym: Urban Dictionary

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  1. anacronym: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (anacronym)

noun:  An acronym that is no longer seen as such, but instead treated as a regular word and styled in lowercase despite its etymological origin.

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