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acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase
acronym ::=
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase (db._phrase)remarkreplaceablesubscriptsubscriptsuperscriptsuperscripttrademarkxrefA pronounceable contraction of initials. An acronym is often printed in all capitals or small capitals, although this is sometimes incorrect (consider dpi or bps).
These elements contain acronym: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glossentry, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in acronym: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, xref.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example acronym</title> <para>In the United States, <acronym>NASA</acronym> stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. </para> </article>
In the United States, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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